Honoring Fannie Lou Hamer
“There are two things we should all care about: never to forget where we came from and always praise the […]
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Commentary: Changing the flag is just the start
For now, leave the flagpoles bare. Let Mississippi earn a new flag that reflects an inclusive and just state.
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My Mississippi: The state flag is racist ? and unoriginal
Every other state’s flag features something distinctive about itself. Why doesn’t ours?
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Commentary: A call for a more careful use of rhetoric
A response to recent columns The Daily Mississippian by professors of writing and rhetoric at the University of Mississippi.
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My Mississippi: On being black and ready to die
“We are not shocked, because unfortunately we know it’s coming.”
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Mississippi leads south in black student suspensions
Black students compose half of Mississippi’s enrollment but receive 74 percent of suspensions according to a new analysis of federal school discipline data.
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‘My Mississippi, Your Mississippi, and Our Mississippi’
The following speech by U.S. District Court Judge Carlton Reeves — Mississippi’s second African American federal judge — has been shared widely since it was read in his courtroom?on February 10. The occasion was a sentencing hearing for the perpetrators of a modern-day lynching: the brutal murder of James Craig Anderson by white teenagers in 2011. Many outlets have republished Judge Reeves’ powerful words in their entirety, and we choose to be among them.
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Sound, fury, and the burden of Mississippi history
As Faulkner instructs, the past is never dead. But lingering Confederate sympathy among Mississippians ? flaring in the wake of the University of Mississippi’s diversity and inclusion report ? proves that it is often misremembered.
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Commentary: Dr. Jones knows if Ole Miss leads, others will pay attention
Mississippi’s flagship university has the opportunity to be a leader for institutions dealing with legacies of racism and exclusion. But before that can happen, we need to support Dan Jones’s leadership from within.
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Fifty years after Freedom Summer, Mississippi education remains separate and unequal
More than one-fourth of Mississippi public schools are at least 90 percent black. Another tenth are at least 90 percent white. And, just as in 1964, students in those identifiably black schools receive an inferior education.
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