Opinion

Recently, I came home to find an unexpected late fee from my utility company. I was shocked because I had set up auto-pay, and I had enough money in my bank account to pay the bill. The company must have been at fault for this hefty mistake, not me. My...

Mike Bloomberg, billionaire businessman and former mayor of New York City, has refused financial support for his 2020 bid for the Democratic nomination, leaving him without donors and without clear support from voters. Senator Bernie Sanders, another Democratic presidential candidate, argued, “If you can’t build grassroots support for your candidacy,...

As college students in the U.S. anticipated their returns to their respective campuses, 3,000 troops prepared for their deployment to the Middle East following increased threats of retaliatory action by Iran. The Trump Administration followed its pattern of unexpected, and often risky, foreign policy moves by killing Maj. Gen. Qasem...

Nearing the 2020 federal elections, Mississippi’s first congressional district has stepped into the spotlight. Antonia Eliason, an associate law professor at Ole Miss and a Democratic Socialist, is running for Congress. Trent Kelly, the Republican incumbent, is running against her. In an interview with Y’all Politics, she explained that she...

Recently, Aramark acquired the on-demand food service Starship to deliver food to students on campuses across the country. The service works by students ordering food on an app, then  on-campus restaurants prepare the food and deliver it to the student. But instead of human delivery, a robot equipped with a...

The new year brought a new legislative session to Jackson. It also brought new estimates from the Census Bureau on Mississippi’s population.  For the fourth time in five years, Mississippi lost population. The state’s population declined by 4,871 people, the sixth highest total in the country. Mississippi and neighboring Louisiana,...

People who want the Confederate monument to remain in the Circle often suggest that it is an emblem of free speech and a reminder of history’s lessons. The Mississippi Institutions of Higher Learning Board of Trustees (IHL) has delayed the relocation of this statue, citing a need for a report...

I recently went to see the play “1984” put on by the Aquila Theatre company of New York. It is a  fantastic and moving play depicting a dystopian society where “Big Brother” is always watching, and I couldn’t help but think, “This all seems so familiar.”  The book that many...

It still hasn’t hit me.  Ten years ago, if someone would have told me I would be the University of Mississippi’s 27th Rhodes Scholar or its first black female Rhodes Scholar, I would have told them that they had a better chance of winning the jackpot at the casino, one...