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Ole Miss students volunteered in three Mississippi communities on Saturday during the inaugural UM Community Day. UM Community Day is a part of M Partner, which stemmed from Flagship Forward, an initiative by Ole Miss Chancellor Jeffrey Vitter. “M Partner...

Ole Miss Chancellor Jeffrey Vitter condemned a “recent social media post by a UM faculty member” in a statement on Vitter’s personal Facebook page Sunday night. “A recent social media post by a UM faculty member did not reflect the...

This story has been updated. Four sociology professors published a report titled “Microaggressions at the University of Mississippi” earlier this week. This report stems from the UM Race Diary Project, which examined almost 1,400 diary entries written by students during...

PANAMA CITY, Fla. (AP) — The devastation inflicted by Hurricane Michael came into focus Thursday with rows upon rows of homes found smashed to pieces, and rescue crews began making their way into the stricken areas in hopes of accounting...

Sandwiched between paragraphs outlining James Zachariah George’s biography, the George Hall contextualization plaque says, “George was most responsible for crafting the ‘Mississippi Plan,’ a program of voter intimidation, violent repression and riot aimed at returning his state to white Democratic...

James Alexander Ventress, the namesake of Ventress Hall on the University of Mississippi’s campus, authored the bill to establish the university in 1840. He was also a slave owner. Nicka Sewell-Smith, a genealogist from Bolivar, Tennessee, is the great-great-granddaughter of...

The empty lot on Fraternity Row between Pi Kappa Phi and Phi Delta Theta has a history unknown to many students. The property still belongs to a National Pan-Hellenic Council fraternity whose original house was burned down in a suspected...

Willie Goolsby began cutting hair more than 50 years ago and has owned and operated Goolsby Hair World since 1968. Although the shop now serves a multicultural clientele, there was a time when black and white people did not patronize...

Before the dust even began to settle around Ed Meek’s offensive Facebook post, the university had taken a public stance and the student body had made its opinion clear. Within a few hours of Meek’s post, Chancellor Jeffrey Vitter condemned...

Former Chancellor Jeffrey Vitter resigned from his position on November 9, 2018. Read our coverage of his resignation here, and analysis of what this means for Ole Miss here. Three weeks after Vitter's resignation, the Ole Miss leadership team wrote...