Monthly Archives: April 2019

Four weeks passed between the time of Ed Meek’s controversial Facebook post and the day that the state college board gave the university approval to...

Last semester, the Mississippi Institutions of Higher Learning approved the University of Mississippi’s request to remove prominent university donor...

Four aging men sit around a booth at the Beacon. It’s late afternoon, and the steady drip of a slow Oxford rainstorm is tapping on the tinted windows...

4/12/2019: This article has been updated to show that comments made by James Thomas reflect his own views and not those of the authors of the UM Race...

When Mahoghany Jordan opened the door to Ki’yona Crawford’s apartment a few weeks ago, she was greeted with a shriek of approval. “You look fine!”...

Just over six months ago, Ed Meek made a racist, sexist Facebook post that implied a relationship between the images of two young black women, both Ole...

Black women’s bodies have always been a focal point of conversation among white men who have no right to discuss them. Through a historical lens, commodification...

The Common Ground Committee, a group created to make recommendations to the School of Journalism and New Media on how to move forward after the Meek controversy,...

Editor’s Note: This article incorrectly stated the year that the university’s journalism department became the Meek School of Journalism and...

I grew up in the suburbs of Chattanooga, Tennessee. My childhood memory is imperfect, but I can only remember one black family out of all three neighborhoods...