Von Gordon — a nonprofit executive who helped organize the first Statewide Student Summit on Race when he was a college student — discusses critical race theory.
Molly Minta
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Higher education reporter at Mississippi Today in partnership with Open Campus.
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State auditor launches scholarship program to combat brain drain
“We’re bleeding our millennial population,” he said. “We just can’t form a government study committee to sit and navel gaze about this for five, 10 years. We’ve gotta act right now.”
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U. of Mississippi faculty senate latest to oppose anti-CRT legislation
The vote is part of an effort from faculty groups at public universities in the state to push against bill that would ban teaching critical race theory.
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Alcorn alumni ask university to respond to allegations of widespread issues on campus
Alcornites for Change describes itself as “born out of a genuine concern for current student conditions at Alcorn, as well as other data points that appear to threaten the sustainability of Alcorn State University.”
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University of Mississippi, Mississippi State drop mask mandates
Public relations officers for the state’s six other universities told Mississippi Today that their schools are continuing to require masks indoors.
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‘We are undeterred’: How Mississippi’s oldest HBCU responded to the bomb threats
Since January, more than two dozen HBCUs, including all but one in Mississippi, have received bomb threats, leading to cancelled classes and campus lockdowns.
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Inside Mississippi’s only class on critical race theory
As Republican lawmakers push to ban critical race theory, here’s how the class changed the mind of one conservative Mississippian.
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Mississippi HBCUs receive bomb threats on first day of Black History Month
At least five historically Black colleges in the state received the threats, prompting lockdowns and virtual classes.
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Jackson State faculty denounce critical race theory legislation
The faculty senate at Mississippi’s largest historically Black university is the first to formally speak out against efforts to curtail discussion of racism in the state’s K-12 and college classrooms.
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Mississippi universities got millions in pandemic relief. It’s hard to know how they spent it.
Mississippi’s eight public universities received $508 million from the federal government. The universities were required to put at least half of that into students’ pockets. The rest could be used for “institutional expenses” due to covid-19.