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Twitter responds to Ole Miss basketball players kneeling during national anthem

While neo-Confederate protesters were marching 1,000 feet away in the Circle, eight Ole Miss men’s basketball players knelt during the national anthem at The Pavilion before the team’s home game against Georgia

February 23, 2019

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Ole Miss basketball players kneel during national anthem as neo-Confederate activists march on campus

Update – 3:00 p.m. Sunday A video posted by ESPN identifies Devontae Shuler as the first of eight Ole Miss players to kneel during the national anthem on Saturday. Shuler’s decision to kneel

February 23, 2019

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Ten days of tension, preparation, confusion: Weekend rally and counterprotests

Pro-Confederate groups Confederate 901 and the Hiwaymen marched on campus today after more than a week of preparation and counterprotests by many in the university community. Read our coverage of the past

February 23, 2019

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LIVE UPDATES: Confederate groups march from Oxford Square to Ole Miss campus

Updated 4:50 p.m. University Police Department Chief Ray Hawkins said there was one person arrested on campus “who failed to comply with directions” from the police. Hawkins said no one associated with

February 23, 2019

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Gallery: Counterprotesters meet Confederate groups on Oxford town Square

After a week of tension in Oxford, a group of around 30 pro-Confederate protesters organized in the Square and began marching to campus in support of the university’s Confederate monument just after

February 23, 2019

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Counterprotesters a no-show at SASI’s march

Members of Students Against Social Injustice (SASI) marched on campus Friday afternoon to demand the university administration remove its Confederate monument. The protest was not met with counterprotesters after the leader of

February 22, 2019

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Gallery: Scenes from ‘Students Over Statues’ march

Students Against Social Injustice marched to the Confederate monument on the Circle to demand the university administration remove the statue. The protest was met with no counterprotesters after the leader of Confederate

February 22, 2019

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Gallery: Students march in protest of Confederate statue on campus

“Black Lives Matter.” “Take it Down.” “A Change Gonna Come.” These phrases plastered on signs and other written calls to action were the only words present during a silent Black History Month

February 22, 2019

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Confederate protests drive some students away from campus this weekend

Today, Marcus Williams and one of his friends will get in his Honda and drive five hours to his home in Pascagoula. It’s something his parents insisted on. He won’t be back

February 22, 2019

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OPINION: Why do we cling to the Confederacy?

Much of the debate about Confederate monuments on campus has centered on whether these monuments are symbols of racial hatred or regional heritage, framing the anguish of the black community against the

February 22, 2019

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