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Mississippi professor sees hope for his state in students’ symbolic flag victory

“To understand the world you have to understand a place like Mississippi,” William Faulkner famously said. His words came to mind late last month as student leaders at the University of Mississippi won their battle to have the state flag, which features a Confederate Battle Flag emblem, removed from the campus flagpole. University students in […]