A U.S. congressman has endorsed the actions of hecklers harassing student protestors at the University of Mississippi. Georgia Rep. Mike Collins made a supportive post, including a video of a counter-protestor making monkey noises at a Black student. The congressman posted his support to his X ...
White mobs rioted on campus in the autumn of 1962 as James Meredith became the first black student to enrol at Ole Miss; military troops were called in and Meredith was escorted by federal marshals. Mississippi’s population is about 38 per cent black, and black students made up 12.7 per ...
A trial has begun for a man charged in the killing of a University of Mississippi student who was well-known in the local LGBTQ+ community.
During the Civil War, when Ole Miss was all male, its entire student body withdrew to enlist in the Confederate army. “Dixie” and the Confederate battle flag still are mainstays at sporting events, and Colonel Reb--a whiskered caricature of a plantation owner--is the school mascot. Even ...