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Nearly 200 students, faculty and community members packed the Nutt Auditorium Friday to listen to four prominent figures discuss American politics. Panelists included NBC News long-time anchor and special correspondent Tom Brokaw, chairman of NBC News Andrew Lack, former Mississippi Gov. Haley Barbour and former Tennessee Congressman Harold Ford Jr. The event, co-sponsored...
Mississippi may be on the higher-ranking end of adult obesity scores in the nation, but according to a recent index conducted by Representation 2020, the state received last place for its Gender Parity Score with only around 15 percent of the Mississippi State Senate composed of women. The Gender Parity Score is meant to measure women’s recent electoral success at the...