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Ridgeland mayor is an embarrassment to Mississippi

Move over “Fahrenheit 451,” a new dystopia is in town. People of all ages have been captured by the dystopian literature that fills bookstores and libraries, but most have never believed that

February 10, 2022

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American conservatism has shifted from personal liberty to government overreach

Ask any two people on the street what critical race theory means and you’ll likely get a different answer from each. Ask Mississippi Governor Tate Reeves and Republican state senators, however, and

February 3, 2022

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Opinion: Mass censorship shows our leaders’ cowardice

“America seems filled with violent people who like causing people pain but hate when those people tell them that pain hurts.” Kiese Laymon is perhaps the most prolific and controversial professor to

February 2, 2022

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Critical race theory isn’t in Mississippi classrooms — but quality history education should be

The Mississippi Senate passed a bill on Friday, Jan. 21 that would ban schools from teaching critical race theory. Not all senators were a part of the vote, however, as all Black

February 1, 2022

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COVID should not take away students’ opportunities

New Year, new variant. As soon as the pandemic appeared to start dying down, a new coronavirus variant that is more contagious than the last has appeared. Once I allowed myself to

January 27, 2022

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America must stop preparing for school shootings and start preventing them

I know I wasn’t the only student who felt a sharp sense of alarm when I read that a school shooting had taken place at Oxford High School on Nov. 30. Nor

January 19, 2022

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Americans cannot accept a single COVID-19 death

As we enter our third calendar year of the pandemic, many say we have much to be hopeful for. 62% of Americans are fully vaccinated, the now-rampant Omicron variant is supposedly less

January 17, 2022

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Jackson doesn’t care about Mississippians’ health

It is common knowledge that Mississippi is one of the sickest states in the nation. Along with SEC football, comfort food and our unpleasant past, Mississippi’s poor health outcomes must be one

December 3, 2021

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The death penalty is antiquated, barbaric and needs to go

On Nov. 17, Mississippi executed its first prisoner since 2012. One of around 150 inmates to “volunteer” for execution since the United States resumed the death penalty in the 1970s, David Neal

December 3, 2021

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Online charisma fuels the fire of extremism

There are three inevitabilities in life: death, taxes and older generations freaking out at the younger ones for technologies and behaviors they don’t understand. TikTok, with its iron grip over the screen

December 1, 2021

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