The Daily Mississippian

Lafayette County Sheriff’s Department and other police departments in Mississippi have been working with Immigration Customs and Enforcement (ICE) since 2012 to remove people that illegally immigrate to the United States. In 2018, ICE removed an average of 65 people per month from Mississippi through the Secure Communities Program. There have been 56 removals in Lafayette County since 2012:...

The Ole Miss football team’s preseason camp has hit the midway point and the schemes and structures set in place by the new coordinators are starting to come to fruition. The Rebels held their second intrasquad scrimmage on Saturday and head coach Matt Luke was pleased with the intensity on both sides of the ball. “I thought the energy was better. The body language was really good....

Not all theater professors are the same. Some only teach while others live in the world that they convey to others: playwriting, directing, and inspiring people through their work. Anne-Marie Cammarato is the latter. In addition to teaching at both Temple University and the University of Delaware, the Italian-American playwright is an award-winning director and the first recipient of The Emerging...

Devontae Shuler knelt for 63 seconds on Saturday. The basketball team’s historic on-court protest was brief, yet it overshadowed a day’s worth of neo-Confederate demonstrations happening at the same time in the heart of campus. The sophomore Rebel took to his knee as the opening notes of “The Star Spangled Banner” played in The Pavillion. Twenty seconds later, five of his teammates had joined...

Sandwiched between paragraphs outlining James Zachariah George’s biography, the George Hall contextualization plaque says, “George was most responsible for crafting the ‘Mississippi Plan,’ a program of voter intimidation, violent repression and riot aimed at returning his state to white Democratic rule.” The plaque goes on to say this repression was “bitter and bloody,” and that the...

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