Opinion

If Lil Nas X was so eager to go to hell, maybe it’s time we ask why.  On March 25, the rapper took the internet by storm with the release of a music video for his song “MONTERO (Call Me By Your Name).” Descending to hell on a stripper pole,...

In a semester filled with Zoom classes and social distancing at home, students are spending more time indoors than in a normal semester. While drowning in homework or rushing from an in-person class to an online class at home, students may be passing right by an underrated stress reliever: the...

It’s happening again.  As America slowly begins to reopen and restart, our oldest pandemic has re-emerged. Mass shootings and gun violence are happening once again. Eight are dead in Atlanta, Georgia. Ten are dead in Boulder, Colorado. Closer to home, Jackson saw a fatal shooting last week, and shots were...

As we lurch further into 2021, many of us — if not all of us — are finding it hard to move forward. While the prospects of a next-to-normal summer seem encouraging, pandemic fatigue has set in. Perhaps an extra hour of sunlight and warmer temperatures will combat this fatigue,...

The 150% rise in hate crimes toward Asian Americans in 2020 ⁠— combined with hundreds of years of American anti-Asian sentiment, imperialism and bigoted presidents ⁠—came to a climax last week in Georgia. In an undeniably racialized and gendered tragedy, a white man shot eight people, including six Korean women,...

Jackson’s water crisis serves as the most recent example of state politics taking priority over human needs, leaving thousands of Jacksonians without water. The LOU community and Mississippians at-large have rallied together to support victims of the outage, yet we have seen little from Gov. Reeves’s office and nothing from...

Gov. Tate Reeves has violated Mississippians' constitutional rights by signing SB 2536 into law.  In Bostock v. Clayton City, Georgia, the Supreme Court held that the employers in question violated Title VII by choosing to fire LGBTQ employees based on their sexual orientation and gender identity. The same sex-based logic...

On March 10, city officials finally lifted the month-long water boil notice for Jackson. Over the past four weeks, many of Jackson’s 300,000 citizens have been without clean running water due to February's historic winter storm. Winter storm Uri wreaked havoc on Jackson’s dated infrastructure, causing instrument failures at the...

When presented with a challenge in life, we are often compelled to choose the easy or hard route. The easy route usually offers little resistance, no opportunities for growth and allows the status quo to remain in place. The hard route, or road less taken, isn’t meant to be easy...

Mississippi Senate Bill 2536, the anti-transgender bill aimed at banning trans athletes from participating in women’s sports, passed last week. The fact that we even have to be releasing this op-ed just days after International Women’s Day is a disappointing reality that sometimes comes with living in this state. As...