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Opinion: Activists overshadowed while politicians gain credit

Tomorrow marks one year since the former Mississippi state flag was retired. It is also day five of Mississippi Today’s five-part series highlighting Mississippi Speaker of the House Philip Gunn’s work to

June 30, 2021

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Unita Blackwell, civil rights pillar and first black woman mayor in Mississippi, dies at 86

Unita Blackwell, the sharecropper who later became the first black woman mayor in the state of Mississippi and advised six U.S. presidents, died Monday at age 86. Her son Jeremiah Blackwell Jr.

May 15, 2019

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Hall of Fame honors student activism with 2019 inductees

Ten senior students were inducted into the 2019 class of the University of Mississippi Hall of Fame at the Gertrude C. Ford Center on Friday, April 5. Many of those selected for

April 15, 2019

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The Ole Miss pendulum: The momentum has been building

It is an undeniable fact of the universe and all of the forces and principles that stitch it together that Newton’s cradle would keep passing energy back and forth, oscillating until the

April 11, 2019

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Opinion: Ole Miss conservatives organize for inaction

If I was around in Tip O’Neill’s day, I doubt we would’ve agreed on much, but he did get one thing exceptionally right: All politics is local. In the age of 24-hour

November 10, 2017

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