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For decades, Ole Miss has made progressive efforts to refine itself while upholding the same outdated traditions. Those traditions have long been a threat...

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As college professors, we have watched events of the past few days in Charlottesville and around the country while preparing for a new semester. We know...

“Does the Confederate flag make you sick?” is the question being asked at this week’s Southern studies department Brown Bag lecture. Jackson...

EMILY WAGSTER PETTUS, Associated Press JACKSON, Miss. (AP) — A long-running feud over the Confederate battle emblem on the Mississippi flag is moving...

ASSOCIATED PRESS JACKSON, Miss. (AP) — The last of Mississippi’s eight public universities has stopped displaying the state flag that prominently...

I come from a part of the country where the racial divide around the Confederate flag is nearly nonexistent because of a lack of diversity. I have been...

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A dozen students gathered in room 404 of the Student Union Thursday for a town hall-style conversation on the Mississippi state flag. No one raised his...

A supporter of the Confederate and Mississippi state flags entered a Walmart in Tupelo Nov. 1 and detonated a homemade explosive device to express his...