Re: “Let’s wait for this storm to pass” (Feb. 18) Have you ever wondered what you would have done during the great conflicts of history? Whether you would have gone to Harpers Ferry with John Brown or urged “law and order?” Whether you would have marched across the Edmund Pettus Bridge or read about it […]
The U.S. seldom meets a coup it doesn’t like. Of course, we have standards. The coup must be orchestrated by right-wing forces and backed by our most egregious allies. As a matter of course, it must violate some aspect of international law. It’s required to invoke the language of human rights to violate human rights. […]
“How is the white man going to control the government?” asked James K. Vardaman in 1907. “If it is necessary, every Negro in the state will be lynched; it will be done to maintain white supremacy.” “If he invited me to a public hanging, I’d be on the front row,” said Cindy Hyde-Smith in […]
In the three years since Chancellor Vitter took control of the leadership at our university, we have declined in various positive metrics as well as witnessed our university become exceptionally divided. A majority of conservatives have felt alienated by Vitter’s leadership since the beginning, with his support of those who pushed to remove the flag […]
“I get along great with all of (the Saudis). They buy apartments from me. They spend $40 million, $50 million. Am I supposed to dislike them? I like them very much!” Donald Trump said at a rally in 2015 in Alabama. “Maybe these could have been rogue killers — who knows?” “Here we go again […]
At his rally in Southaven on Tuesday, Donald Trump attacked and ridiculed Dr. Christine Blasey Ford, the professor who has accused Supreme Court nominee Brett Kavanaugh of attempting to rape her when they were both in high school. Trump called Ford “really evil” and said that the women in attendance should consider that their own […]
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 has been vanquished and inclusion upheld. But while such closure is convenient, it ignores the fact that Ed Meek’s despicable racism is only a symptom of a much bigger […]
Corporations care about one thing: profit. They do not want to be your friend. They are not trying to make the world a better place. They are not dedicated to justice or freedom. They are only interested in making money. From that point of view, Nike’s new advertising campaign featuring Colin Kaepernick is a smart […]
Fifty years ago, in what would be his final speech, the Rev. Martin Luther King Jr. looked down from the “mountaintop” to tell a mass meeting in Memphis a simple message: Labor rights are civil rights. The great organizer and orator understood that these two issues were inseparably linked. The March on Washington was actually […]
At 16 years old, Ahed Tamimi has become an international icon. Born in the Palestinian village of Nabi Salih, the curly-haired activist has been protesting the illegal Israeli occupation since she was 9 . Now, she is one of more than 300 Palestinian children currently being held in Israeli prisons. The occupation is brutal and […]
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