If you have any symptoms at all, stay home. If you do not have symptoms, then you can start to think about travel for the holidays. Knowing that tests are imperfect, the safest thing you can do is to strictly self-quarantine for 14 days before your visit. Testing can offer a helpful data point, but a quarantine is the more foolproof option.
Since we don’t have an approved vaccine in widespread use, yet, protective measures are still essential. As a nursing-school dean, recommend taking these seven simple steps to protect yourself and your loved ones and reduce the spread of COVID-19.
In Mississippi, Native, Black and Latino youth are underserved across the state in gifted programs at rates of two to more than 3 three times less than white and Asian students. One notable exception is equitable representation of Black youth as gifted in City schools, setting Mississippi apart from the other states in the country
You wear your mask, keep six feet between yourself and others, and are committed to safety. But the measures that help minimize your risk of COVID-19 can also have an impact on your interactions with others.
Current debates around racism confirm that Confederate statues and Christopher Columbus statues, which effectively commemorate white superiority, have expired. What’s a nation to do with expired monuments?
Jacob Ray writes that the Civil Rights Movement and Voting Rights Act ended voter suppression in the forms of lynchings, bombings, cross burnings, “bubbles in a bar of soap” tests, literacy tests and “good character” tests, but other forms of suppression survived the federal laws and continue to thrive.
Black students and faculty at the University of Mississippi explain how administrators, donors and alumni can step boldly into an anti-racist future with transparency, publicly stated solutions and without depending on UM community members of color to do the heavy lifting. They love the university and want to see it reach its, and thus the state’s, full diverse, equitable and inclusive potential.
In a pandemic season of closed theaters, New Stage Theatre in Jackson redesigned and rescued its three-week summer day camp, albeit with fewer than half its usual number of participants.
‘We want to love this campus just as much as everyone else’: Two top Black student leaders say every stakeholder of the University of Mississippi needs training in diversity, equity and inclusion—and that the administration must start being publicly transparent about both problems and solutions underway.
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