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A styrofoam cup full of icewater flew out of the hands of a counterprotestor and across the partly cloudy sky toward a group of pro-Palestine protesters at the University of Mississippi on Thursday, marking the beginning of a tense hour on the Quad. Some among a mostly white, mostly male group of counter protesters engaged in racist, sexist displays and hurled epithets.
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In(Equity) and Resilience: Black Women, Systemic Barriers and COVID-19
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A space for public conversation on race in the South, including the persisting impact of private academies.
We Envied Private School Students. Why Weren’t We Taught Their History?
Skylar Smith-Northwest Rankin High School- Class of 2021-Flowood, Mississippi
It’s Not What I Was Taught. It Was What I Was Not Taught
Caleb Bedford–Class of 2012–East Rankin Academy–Pelachatchie, Mississippi
Integrated Isn’t the Same as Transformed
Selika Sweet – Murrah High School – Class of 1979
MISSISSIPPI RACE VIOLENCE PROJECT
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