Ole Miss News

Mississippi school bus accident takes deadly turn

By theGrio

1:19 PM on 02/09/2011

VIDEO - Three adults were killed and at least a dozen students were injured when a tractor-trailer collided head-on with a school bus in Mississippi Tuesday afternoon...
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Blacks' higher education options limited in the South

By theGrio

1:29 PM on 10/19/2010

JACKSON, Miss. (AP) - "The 400,000 or 500,000 African-Americans in the Delta need a place to go to school where they can get black culture and feel comfortable"...
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Ole Miss students sack Confederate rebel mascot

By theGrio

11:47 AM on 10/14/2010

OXFORD, Miss. (AP) - Students at the University of Mississippi have picked the Rebel Black Bear as their new mascot...
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Ole Miss to vote on Colonel Reb mascot replacement

By theGrio

12:35 PM on 02/23/2010

JACKSON, Mississippi (AP) - Students at the University of Mississippi vote Tuesday on whether to replace their American football team mascot Colonel Reb -- a caricature of a white plantation owner...
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Ole Miss football player collapes in workout, dies

By theGrio

2:00 PM on 02/20/2010

OXFORD, Miss. (AP) - A University of Mississippi football player has died after collapsing during the first day of team workouts...
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KKK rally briefly before LSU-Ole Miss game

By theGrio

5:20 AM on 11/22/2009

OXFORD, Miss. (AP) -- About a dozen hooded Ku Klux Klan members rallied briefly at the University of Mississippi before Saturday's football game with No. 10 LSU...
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