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Student government is always an exciting institution where it seems new challenges and dramas unfold each day. On Thursday, April 4, our campus experienced...

Minnesota Rep. Ilhan Omar has been in the national spotlight since her controversial tweets earlier this year and a speech in which she criticized the...

In the spirit of promoting a better and more complete appreciation of the current protests of the Confederate monument, it has occurred to me that the...

At the end of August 2018, Gov. Phil Bryant signed legislation authorizing a lottery in Mississippi. In recent months, a five-member board of directors...

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...

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...

At last week’s meeting, the Board of Aldermen presented a new city ordinance restricting the use of vape pens and e-cigarettes. To accomplish this,...

With scandals involving wealthy parents and their children clouding the news, there’s a much more sinister issue that looms over us all. In our communities,...