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Enrollment at the University of Mississippi is down for the fourth year in a row, according to data from the state Institutions of Higher Learning.  A year ago, there were 22,273 students at UM, but fall 2020 numbers have the...

Mississippi voters decided in an overwhelming majority to approve a new state flag design in Tuesday’s election. The decision to remove the flag came in the wake of nationwide protests following the deaths of George Floyd, Breonna Taylor and others...

Mississippians voted to approve medical marijuana in the state Tuesday, voting in favor of the creation of a medical marijuana program and to approve Initiative 65. Medical marijuana’s appearance on Mississippi ballots has been a point of discussion for months,...

Incumbent republican Senator Cindy Hyde-Smith has defeated democratic challenger Mike Espy. The Associated Press called the race for Hyde-Smith at 10:45 p.m. This is the second race between Hyde-Smith and Espy and the first matchup since a special election was...

Students are struggling to keep up with classes during the condensed semester, and professors feel the pressure to deliver a quality product in a different format. Over the summer, the university announced  it would modify the fall semester schedule, moving...

Mike Espy held an event at the Oxford Pavilion on Oct. 29, 2020. Photo by Billy Schuerman. With Election Day just four days away, former U.S. Secretary of Agriculture Mike Espy brought his campaign bus — named The Momentum —...

Typically, college chapters of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP) focus their efforts on promoting social justice protests, advocating for voter registration and educating students to protect against voter suppression. While this year’s leaders of the...

As the 2020 election has grown nearer, students have become overstressed about the modern political climate and the possible implications of the election results to the point where it is negatively affecting their mental health.  According to a study conducted...

Amid the bustle of a football game weekend, a crowd gathered last Saturday in front of the Confederate monument on the Square, many of them carrying signs with quotes like “Love your neighbor, move the statue,” and “Make Oxford welcoming...

On Tuesday, Mississippi Today hosted a conversation with former Grisham writer-in-residence and current UM English professor Aimee Nezhukumatathil in the third installment of its Mississippi Writers on Mississippi Politics series. Brittany Brown, a graduate student in the Southern studies program...