After eight Ole Miss basketball players knelt during the national anthem before their game on Saturday, social media has been ablaze with some alumni supporting the players and others threatening to keep their donations from the university. In response to...
Devontae Shuler knelt for 63 seconds on Saturday. The basketball team’s historic on-court protest was brief, yet it overshadowed a day’s worth of neo-Confederate demonstrations happening at the same time in the heart of campus. The sophomore Rebel took to...
The University of Mississippi erupted this weekend as neo-Confederate activists organized the Mississippi Stands Rally in the Square and marched to the Ole Miss campus with Confederate battle flags in hand on Saturday to protest the removal of Confederate symbols...
Jenna Bernstein and Qadree Williams argued in front of the Confederate monument in the Oxford Square just after the protest on Saturday afternoon, voices raised. “If you have respect for your culture, then we are on the same side,” Bernstein...
The University Police Department arrested Sam Abel, who was protesting against the Confederate groups on campus Saturday. UPD charged Abel with disorderly conduct and resisting arrest. “No one was injured,” UPD Chief Ray Hawkins said. “We had one situation where...
Behind a wall of Confederate battle flags and politically charged signs, the statue stands clasping a musket and casting his gaze down the streets of Oxford’s Square. Roughly a mile away, another stone soldier of the Confederacy peers down University...
Neo-Confederate activists organized on the Square and marched onto the Ole Miss campus on Saturday to protest the removal of Confederate symbols from the area. Many community members gathered along the path of the march to observe. Laura Antonow, Director...
Oxford residents and Ole Miss students gathered on the Square and on campus this afternoon not to join the protests but to watch them. While most spectators had opinions about the protesters, many said they were apathetic about the overall impact...
As neo-Confederate activists arrived on campus, counterprotesters with signs began chanting, “Black presence, black power,” “We will not be quiet” and “Your heritage is hate.” Despite the possibility of severe weather, approximately 50 counterprotesters gathered around the Circle in the...
Following a demonstration in the Oxford Square, neo-Confederate activists marched to the Ole Miss campus on Wednesday, ending at the Confederate monument in the Circle. The protesters were met by approximately 50 counterprotesters waiting for them, separated by barricades in...