“As these (Confederate) monuments were erected, the vote increased for members of the then-racist Democratic Party, and people turned out to vote in lower numbers in predominantly Black areas,” Alexander N. Taylor writes.
For the young Black Mississippi activists who organized the BLM Sip march in June 2020, changing the state flag was an important symbolic start. Now, they want to bring true racial justice to the Magnolia State when it comes to the areas of voting, criminal justice, education and more.
The Lafayette County Board of Supervisors is holding out on both moving the Oxford Confederate statue and memorializing a lynched Black man there because he allegedly killed a white woman.
while these keepsakes may seem apolitical, their very circulation enables Confederate myths and symbols to become “normal” features of people’s daily lives.
Days after the Mississippi Free Press first reported on emails involving a University of Mississippi dean that included remarks disparaging to Black women students and a famous gay alum, UM Provost Noel Wilkin denounced the remarks in a YouTube video.
Mississippi House Rep. Karl Oliver, who drew national headlines in 2017 for saying New Orleans lawmakers “should be lynched” for removing that city’s Confederate monuments, today announced that he supports changing Mississippi’s State Flag.
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