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  • Race & Racism

    Honoring Fannie Lou Hamer

    “There are two things we should all care about: never to forget where we came from and always praise the bridges that carried us over.? – Fannie Lou Hamer Mrs. Hamer ? born on October 6, 1917 ? was a bridge that carried Black Mississippians toward political and economic freedom....

    By Jake McGraw
    October 6, 2020
  • Commentary

    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.

    By Leah Davis and Susan M. Glisson
    June 24, 2020
  • My Mississippi

    My Mississippi: The state flag is racist ? and unoriginal

    Every other state's flag features something distinctive about itself. Why doesn't ours?

    By Taylor McGraw
    September 29, 2016
  • Commentary

    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.

    By LaToya Faulk, Jennifer Jackson, Amber Nichols-Buckley, & Sarah Bartlett Wilson
    September 23, 2016
  • My Mississippi

    My Mississippi: On being black and ready to die

    "We are not shocked, because unfortunately we know it's coming."

    By Caleb Herod
    September 23, 2016
  • LGBTQ Equality

    My Mississippi: Reading Ms. Welty after HB 1523

    On a recent visit home, writer Douglas Ray reflected on Mississippi's humane letters and inhumane laws.

    By Douglas Ray
    July 15, 2016
  • LGBTQ Equality

    My Mississippi: A setback and a sigh

    HB 1523 has been on the minds of Mississippi natives living in other parts of the country. For many, it underscores why they left.

    By Alex Beene
    April 8, 2016
  • Analysis

    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.

    By Jackie Mader, The Hechinger Report
    September 1, 2015
  • Features

    Primary Colors: How Robert Gray’s upset was more than a century in the making

    Mississippi's anachronistic primary system made it possible for a mystery man to win the Democratic nomination for governor.

    By Jake McGraw
    August 14, 2015
  • Editor's Blog

    Watch Jon Stewart’s best segments about Mississippi

    Even when 'The Daily Show' hit close to home, it was hard not to laugh.

    By Jake McGraw
    August 7, 2015
  • "Honest Mississippi"

    ‘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...

    By Jake McGraw
    February 20, 2015
  • Editor's Blog

    Egg Bowl ticket or rent? Which would you pick?

    Mississippi's football success is getting very, very expensive.

    By Jake McGraw
    October 13, 2014
  • Features

    History says Mississippi can’t have two good SEC football teams at the same time. Has that changed?

    During a season in which Mississippi boasted two of the country's top three college football teams, we explore the question that has frustrated Rebels and Bulldogs for a century.

    By Jake McGraw
    October 5, 2014
  • Editor's Blog

    Mississippi produces the most ‘geniuses’ in the South

    Mississippians win MacArthur "Genius Grants" at a higher rate than residents of any other Southern state. What, if anything, does that say about us?

    By Jake McGraw
    September 18, 2014
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