MSU players boycott practice, protest for racial equality
With their right arms raised in the center of Unity Park, two blocks off Martin Luther King Boulevard and less than 100 yards from the Oktibbeha County Sheriff’s Department, roughly 80 Mississippi State football players gathered Thursday evening in solidarity to protest against racial injustice in the United States.
Analysis: Candidates need motivated voters for Senate runoff
Candidates in Mississippi’s U.S. Senate runoff are competing with college football, Thanksgiving turkey and the mad dash of Christmas bargain hunting as they try to hold voters’ attention.
State senator’s ‘public hanging’ remark draws rebuke
A newly published video shows a white Republican U.S. senator in Mississippi praising someone by saying: “If he invited me to a public hanging, I’d be on the front row.”
Government blesses omitting race from admissions, enrollment
The Trump administration said the government would no longer encourage schools to use race as a factor in the admissions process, rescinding Obama-era guidance meant to promote diversity among students.
Experts: Black studies programs facing campus challenges
Protests by University of Missouri black students that forced the school’s administration to address racism and other problems mirror efforts decades ago that led many majority white schools to create African-American studies and other programs.
Missouri would likely be alone with 10 percent black faculty
If the University of Missouri succeeds in meeting a student demand for a faculty that’s 10 percent black in two years, it will likely be alone among its peers.
Will more college athletes take on the establishment?
College athletes have more power than ever before, almost everyone can agree on that. What is up for debate is whether that will lead to overdue change, or whether it will throw programs into turmoil.
Online threats heighten tensions at University of Missouri
The University of Missouri said it is has increased security and is investigating online threats, an announcement that again heightened tensions on the campus after days of turmoil.
Missouri players didn’t recognize how much power they had
Missouri receiver J’Mon Moore decided to visit the protesters who had built a tent city on Carnahan Quad, demanding that the university pay attention to their complaints about racism.
U. of Missouri president, chancellor leave over race tension
The president of the University of Missouri system and the head of its flagship campus resigned Monday with the football team and others on campus in open revolt over what they saw as indifference to racial tensions at the school.
Racial identity of activist questioned but does it matter?
Questions about the racial identity of a well-known activist in the “Black Lives Matter” movement have stirred controversy and drawn a blistering response. But the central question remains: Does his race matter?
Poll: Half of blacks say police have treated them unfairly
A majority of blacks in the United States — more than 3 out of 5 — say they or a family member have personal experience with being treated unfairly by the police, and their race is the reason why.
Choosing your own: Definition of race becoming fluid
Rachel Dolezal, born to white parents, self-identifies as black — a decision that illustrates how fluid identity can be in a diversifying America, as the rigid racial structures that have defined most of this country’s history seem, for some, to be softening.
Some see differences between perceptions of Waco, Baltimore
The prevailing images of protests in Baltimore and Ferguson, Missouri, over police killings of black men were of police in riot gear, handcuffed protesters, tear gas and mass arrests.
Bill Crawford: Mississippi’s thin racial veneer
Race persists as a predominant part of Mississippi life.
MTV airs in black and white to spark conversation on race
MTV is taking the color out of its programming on Martin Luther King Jr. Day to encourage people to talk about what race means in their lives.
Scott, Bale defend ‘Exodus’ casting
The biblical film “Exodus: Gods and Kings” has come under fire for white actors being cast in the main roles as Egyptians.
White cast of ‘Exodus: Gods and Kings’ reflects cinema tradition
Put “ancient Egyptian people” into a Google image search, and none of the resulting photos resemble Christian Bale or Joel Edgerton, stars of Ridley Scott’s biblical epic “Exodus: Gods and Kings.”
Should white mom be paid for brown baby mistake?
What is the price of being forced to raise a brown baby?
District of Columbia adds race to debate on legalizing pot
A debate over legalizing marijuana in the nation’s capital is focusing on the outsized number of arrests of African Americans on minor drug charges.