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Race & RacismHonoring 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 -
CommentaryCommentary: 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 -
My MississippiMy 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 -
CommentaryCommentary: 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 -
My MississippiMy Mississippi: On being black and ready to die
"We are not shocked, because unfortunately we know it's coming."
By Caleb Herod -
LGBTQ EqualityMy 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 -
LGBTQ EqualityMy 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 -
AnalysisMississippi 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 -
FeaturesPrimary 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 -
Editor's BlogWatch 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 -
"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 -
Editor's BlogEgg Bowl ticket or rent? Which would you pick?
Mississippi's football success is getting very, very expensive.
By Jake McGraw -
FeaturesHistory 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 -
Editor's BlogMississippi 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
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