Rep. Collins Revises Praise of UM Frat Members’ Actions at Pro-Palestine Protest
Republican U.S. Rep. Mike Collins partially backtracked on his praise for a video that included a man making monkey gestures at a Black student.
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Republican U.S. Rep. Mike Collins partially backtracked on his praise for a video that included a man making monkey gestures at a Black student.
Phi Delta Theta says it removed one of its members for “racist actions” at the University of Mississippi in response to a pro-Palestine protest.
U.S. House Rep. Mike Collins, R-Georgia, praised a video that showed a University of Mississippi student making monkey gestures at a Black woman.
Bolton, Miss., fashion designer Elizabeth Keyes launched the first line in her House of E. Keyes fashion collection on March 18, 2024.Â
A Mississippi Senate plan to expand Medicaid to tens of thousands of residents is still alive, but would cover far fewer people than an earlier version.
The Republican-led Mississippi House held hearings to consider Medicaid expansion for the first time since it became an option over a decade ago.
Fulton County District Attorney Fani Willis’ testimony about her relationship with a special prosecutor was a familiar scene for many Black women.
“In May 1803 a group of enslaved Africans from present-day Nigeria, of Ebo or Igbo descent, leaped from a single-masted ship into Dunbar Creek off St. Simons Island in Georgia,” Thomas Hallock writes.
Married couple Dezron Odomes and Essence Wallace-Odomes return to Jackson, Miss., to open a film-production studio in their hometown.Â
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