Tag Archives: Racism

Interim Chancellor Larry Sparks said in a statement released Friday afternoon that the students seen in a photo in front of a bullet-riddled Emmett Till...

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...

Last week, students, faculty and staff sifted through confusing communiqué and endeavored to make informed decisions about whether it was safe to come...

Numerous University of Mississippi organizations and campus ministries gathered in the Student Union Ballroom to acknowledge racism and consider it through...

This story has been updated. Four sociology professors published a report titled “Microaggressions at the University of Mississippi” earlier this week. This...

Before the dust even began to settle around Ed Meek’s offensive Facebook post, the university had taken a public stance and the student body had made...

Four UM sociology professors have published a report titled “Microaggressions at the University of Mississippi,” which analyzes nearly 1,400 entries...

Bias is often the assumption made when a controversial story or an uncomfortable study that points to a supposedly clear narrative emerges. Occasionally,...

The University of Mississippi is at a crossroads. With Ed Meek’s name coming down from the journalism school, it would be easy to proclaim that racism...

To the Editors, I’m impressed by the courage of the DM staff, the journalism faculty, and I am even more awed at the bravery of senior Mahoghany Jordan...