Browsing: Mississippi

One GOP lawmaker thinks the bill still doesn’t go far enough.

A University of Mississippi fraternity has removed a member who was accused of imitating a monkey to intimidate a Black protester at the college’s pro-Palestinian encampment. Video of the protests went viral last week, showing a group of white men standing across from a lone Black woman participating in the protest, with the men dancing,…

The University of Mississippi opened a conduct investigation Saturday into at least one student after a video went viral showing a group of students harassing a pro-Palestine protester on the campus last week. Chancellor Glenn Boyce said the counterprotesters’ chants and actions Thursday contained “hostility and racist overtones.” Video showed a group of white men…

Biden’s handling of Gaza continues to anger significant numbers of voters.

Due to weeks of continuous heavy rain, coupled with a runoff from an unusually snowy winter, thousands of homes and over 3 million acres of farmland in Mississippi, Tennessee, and Arkansas have been flooded. In a desperate attempt to save neighboring large cities from the floods, U.S, Army Corps of Engineers are working day and […]

Late this Monday, the Mississippi crested in at 47.8 feet (14.5 meters), just less than a foot below the city’s record, set in 1937. As the river reaches nearby city neighborhoods and Shelby County suburbs, nature has “put the pin back in the grenade,” said county spokesperson Steve Shular. Floods are really nasty, but for […]