In late January of this year, Jussie Smollett, an actor on the show “Empire,” told the police that he was called racist epithets and that attackers wrapped a noose around his neck and poured an unknown chemical substance on him. Afterward, celebrities gave their sympathies through various forms as well as vows to find justice. […]
No. 10 Ole Miss almost completed the comeback but ultimately fell 3-2 to No. 18 East Carolina on Wednesday afternoon. The offense wasn’t there for the Rebels like it has been all season, and East Carolina starting pitcher Jake Kuchmaner pitched a gem of a game, nearly completing a no-hitter. “We can really swing it,” […]
When Ralph Eubanks arrived at the University of Mississippi as a student from his hometown of Mount Olive in 1974, he never could have imagined that the Confederate symbolism that defined Ole Miss would disappear. “We saw (the Confederate flag, Colonel Reb and the statue) as things that were entrenched, that we just had to […]
“Sad about a lot of things mostly hungry”
The Sarah Isom Center for Women and Gender Studies will host the annual Southeastern Women’s Studies Association’s conference from today through Saturday. The conference’s 50 sessions, two keynotes and several other events will work toward “Envisioning a Feminist and Queer South,” this year’s theme. SEWSA, which is a regional branch of the National Women’s Studies […]
The Senate of the Faculty will vote on a resolution to relocate Ole Miss’s Confederate monument from the Circle to the Confederate cemetery at special meeting Thursday night, making it the third campus government organization to vote on the issue this week. “That the statue and its placement provide an unwelcome reminder to many in […]
Last week, the Associated Student Body senate released a draft of legislation aimed at relocating the university’s Confederate monument on the Circle to the on-campus Confederate cemetery. Soon after, other campus groups and communities took to voicing their own opinions about Ole Miss’s Confederate monument. The Graduate Student Council Senate passed a resolution on Monday […]
The Ole Miss women’s basketball team lost in the first round of the SEC tournament on Wednesday, falling to the No. 13-seeded Florida Gators with a final score of 64-57 and ending the Rebels’ season. The team finished the season with six straight losses, bringing the Rebels’ final record to 9-22 (3-14). Their three wins […]
The University of Mississippi now stands at a crossroads after two campus government organizations have passed resolutions to relocate the Confederate monument: move the statue to the Confederate cemetery, or allow it to remain in the Circle Though the position the university is in is contentious, it isn’t new — Ole Miss has found itself […]
Christianity has long been guilty of the sin of white supremacy. Slave ships had chaplains. Plantation owners “converted” their slaves to Christianity. Churches have long been some of the most segregated spaces in our country. Men like Jefferson Davis, James Vardaman and Ross Barnett read the same bible and worshipped the same God we do. […]
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