University of Mississippi

Ole Miss basketball players kneel during the national anthem.

University of Mississippi faculty and students are leading an effort to rename their journalism school after Ida B. Wells-Barnett.

A week after University of Mississippi student leaders voted overwhelmingly to remove the state flag from campus, it was taken down during a ceremony on Monday.

Graeme Phillip Harris, a student at the University of Mississippi in Oxford, has been charged with federal civil rights crimes for engaging in threatening conduct directed at African-American students and employees, according to a news release Friday from the U.S. Department of Justice. Harris was indicted by a federal grand jury on one count of […]

At the University of Mississippi (UM), a year-long initiative to increase graduates in fields of science, technology, engineering and mathematics (STEM) has paid off in epic fashion. Ole Miss News reports that three African-American chemistry students graduated on May 11 with doctorates, setting a school record. SEE ALSO: Top 25 Transformative High Schools The trio […]