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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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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Report: Mississippi children continue to lack needed resources
Children in Mississippi are falling further behind the rest of the nation?s children in vital areas such as education and health, according to a new report from the Annie E. Casey Foundation.
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Rethinking the Week, March 15 ? March 21
A weekly aggregation of the ideas and issues that stuck with us. This week: Mississippi writers talk about life and literature in the state, and the uninsured are still skeptical of the ACA as the enrollment deadline approaches.
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Reducing racial disparities in our prisons: What can Mississippi learn from other states?
The bipartisan sentencing reform bill moving through the Legislature does not address racial disparities. That’s a serious omission.