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A bipartisan group of Mississippi lawmakers, with the blessing of Speaker of the House Philip Gunn, began whipping votes and drafting a resolution on Monday to change the state flag, which was adopted in 1894 and is the last in...

  Almost 15 months after the Associated Student Body Senate unanimously voted to relocate the Confederate monument at the University of Mississippi, Delta Psi chapter president Drew Leopard called for all fraternity and sorority leaders on campus to take a...

Over 200 members of the university community, including Provost Noel Wilkin, women’s basketball coach Yolett McPhee-McCuin, Associated Student Body President Joshua Mannery and Black Student Union President Nicholas Crasta, gathered in a Zoom meeting on Tuesday night to “unpack the...

A UM student and an employee have tested positive for COVID-19, according to an emergency notification sent to the university community. The university said that the wellness and safety of the university community was its primary concern at this time....

Katrina Caldwell, the vice chancellor for diversity and community engagement, is leaving the University of Mississippi to take a position as the vice provost for diversity and inclusion and chief diversity officer at Johns Hopkins University in Baltimore on June...

Chancellor Glenn Boyce said he was committed to seeing that the Confederate monument that sits on campus is removed from the Circle, according to an email sent to the university community.  “This is a time for change. For me, that...

Protesters gathered on the Square to protest police brutality and racism.

As peaceful protesters met on the Square on Saturday, the Confederate monument that sits at the Circle on campus was vandalized.  The words “spiritual genocide” were spraypainted in black across all four sides of the base, and “SG” was painted...

Colleges and universities will resume “traditional operations” in fall of 2020, the Board of Trustees of Mississippi Institutions of Higher Learning voted on Thursday.  The IHL Board, which oversees all of Mississippi’s eight public colleges and universities, passed this resolution unanimously...

In what Oxford Police Department has called a "critical incident," local, state and federal agents arrived at South Lamar Blvd. in front of Hooper Hollow cottages. Hunter Carlstrom, a man wanted in connection with a murder in Arkansas earlier this...