Two years ago, I wrote an opinion article in honor of First-Generation College Student Celebration Week. I hoped that my words would provide comfort for other first-gen students navigating the strange and unfamiliar institution a university can be. At the time, there was little else I could offer. Around the same time, I wrote another […]
It has been six months since Gov. Tate Reeves declared a state of emergency in response to the coronavirus on March 14 – and there is no end in sight. When I reflect on how this time has passed, I become more and more convinced that we must stop accepting the bare minimum from the […]
If you are a college student, you are most likely not going to get any economic relief from the federal government amid the pandemic. In an effort to mitigate economic pain from the COVID-19 pandemic, the president recently signed a $2.2 trillion stimulus package that promised $1,200 to U.S. adults for themselves and $500 for […]
On the day of the gubernatorial primary elections, conservative group Mississippi Strong released an attack ad against Jim Hood. It worked to portray the attorney general as a Washington elite, “standing with the radical liberal resistance.” The ad ends with an image of Hood surrounded by Representative Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, Hillary Clinton and House Speaker Nancy […]
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