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News  |  Sarah Ulmer  • 
July 16, 2018

OPINION: A win for academic freedom

By: Brett Kittridge, Director of Marketing and Communications for Mississippi Center for Public Policy. Colleges and universities, both public and private, have long fashioned themselves as beacons of academic freedom. The place where ideas are to be discussed and debated, and conventional wisdom is challenged and deliberated. A place where various and diverse opinions are…
News  |  Sarah Ulmer  • 
July 16, 2018

Congressman Thompson’s Statement on the Reopening of Emmett Till’s Case

Last week, U.S. Representative Bennie G. Thompson (MS-02) released the following statement on the U.S. Department of Justice’s decision to reopen the cold case of Emmett Till: “I’m pleased that the Department of Justice is reopening the case of Emmett Till,” Thompson said. “In a letter written in 2017, to Acting Assistant Attorney General Thomas…