Campus Union Demands UM Reinstate Garrett Felber As Part of ‘A Broader Reckoning’
The United Campus Workers of Mississippi is demanding the reinstatement of historian Garrett Felber, known for his anti-racism work at the University of Mississippi.
The United Campus Workers of Mississippi is demanding the reinstatement of historian Garrett Felber, known for his anti-racism work at the University of Mississippi.
As Mississippi’s 2021 legislative session unfolds, two currents are competing to respond to 2020’s tumultuous election. One seeks to expand voting access, dismantling barriers for voter registration, the casting of absentee ballots and the return of the franchise to previously incarcerated residents. The other current is far more punitive and is more popular with the state’s supermajority Republican Party that controls the Governor’s Mansion and both chambers at the Capitol.
Rep. Kabir Karriem: We have heard the stories of incarcerated Mississippians dying needlessly due to understaffing and a lack of resources, and this situation has been made much worse by the COVID-19 pandemic.
The University of Mississippi administration has broken its silence on the firing of Dr. Garrett Felber, a professor known for his anti-racism and prison decarceral work, suggesting that the national outcry within academia against the termination is “tied to the stereotypes of our institution’s past.”
Sen. Brice Wiggins, a prominent Republican member of the Mississippi Senate from Pascagoula, broke ranks with most members of his party in the state today as he criticized President Donald Trump’s ongoing pardon spree.
Concerns grew among some faculty members at the University of Mississippi today after Chancellor Glenn Boyce announced he had appointed William W. Berry III, a longtime law professor in the UM school of law, as the university’s new acting ombudsman.
During a period of what University of Mississippi faculty are calling a time of increasing paranoia, the university is set to terminate a celebrated professor of history—the outspoken anti-racism and decarceral scholar, Dr. Garrett Felber.
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