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.
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.
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.
The director of WKKF's Mississippi and New Orleans programming speaks about President Obama's My Brother's Keeper initiative, the challenges unique to young black and Latino men, and what success will look like in Mississippi.
Is it about religious freedom? Is it about LGBTQ discrimination? We cover all of that in our primer on the most controversial bill of the legislative session.
SB 2681 sanctions discrimination in the name of religious freedom. Lex Rofes of the Institute of Southern Jewish Life explains why his religious beliefs have led him to oppose the bill.
Now that the Governor and Legislature want to add "In God We Trust" to the state seal, let?s have a conversation about the symbol that most needs to be changed.
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