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Student leaders at the University of Mississippi are taking steps toward removing its Confederate statue from the center of campus. Student leaders met with campus historians and administrators this month to discuss options for removing the university's Confederate statue from...

Martin Hall. Photo by Katherine Butler Ole Miss students are questioning campus housing’s approach in managing problems with its residents, and some have voiced concern with housing employees’ recent reliance on law enforcement officials. University Police Department is called to...

Co-keynote speakers Dr. Joy DeGruy and Tim Wise address the crowd regarding Black History Month related issues last night in the student union ballroom. Photo by Katherine Butler Tim Wise and Joy Degruy, both prominent researchers and scholars on race,...

A car crashed into A Look Ahead sunglasses store on the Square just before midnight on Saturday night after the car was hit from behind and propelled into the storefront, causing extensive damage to both the vehicle and the shop....

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...