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“Our members are not involved”: Ole Miss Alpha Phi says students making monkey noises in viral video were misidentified as sorority members

The University of Mississippi campus in Oxford, Mississippi [Representational Image] - Source: Getty The Iota Omega chapter of Alpha Phi sorority at the University of Mississippi, also known as Ole Miss, has addressed the viral clip showing individuals making monkey noises outside a Black woman’s apartment. The sorority distanced itself from the controversy, stating that none of its members were involved, contrary to claims circulating online. Recently, TikTok user and Ole Miss student Jakiyra Metcalf (@jakiyrametcalf_) posted Ring camera footage showing three women walking past her apartment....

Oxford, MS · 2d

Daily Mississippian

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Meet Oxford’s editor of The Scout Guide

The Scout Guide is a collection of features from local businesses intended to showcase the culture of cities and regions where it is published. In Oxford, local editor Abbe Barfield wants to create a guide readers use every day to decide which businesses they will support. The franchise has distributed...

Oxford, MS · 1d
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Scobey, Yalobusha County: From Preston and Garner to a Mississippi Railroad Town

Appalachian Community Histories – Scobey, Yalobusha County: From Preston and Garner to a Mississippi Railroad Town. In the southwestern corner of Yalobusha County, Mississippi, the community of Scobey developed along a railroad that helped reshape the settlement patterns of northern Mississippi during the nineteenth century. Although its population never approached that of larger towns such as Grenada, Coffeeville, or Water Valley, Scobey became an important local connection between the agricultural countryside and the expanding transportation network that linked Mississippi to markets across the South.

Yalobusha County, MS · 4d

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Terza, Panola County: A Methodist Church, a Rural Post Office, and the Lester Family

Appalachian Community Histories – Terza, Panola County: A Methodist Church, a Rural Post Office, and the Lester Family. Along Terza Road in Panola County, Mississippi, between the communities of Batesville and Sardis, lies a rural settlement whose history can easily be overlooked. Terza never developed into one of the county’s principal towns, and surviving historical accounts offer little indication that it possessed the commercial importance of its larger neighbors. Nevertheless, the community’s name appears in nineteenth-century postal records, early Mississippi historical publications, Methodist church histories, and cemetery records that reveal a settlement with roots extending back to the antebellum period.

Panola County, MS · 1d

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Locke Station, Panola County: Rural Roads, Cotton Fields, and a Mississippi Delta Community

Appalachian Community Histories – Locke Station, Panola County: Rural Roads, Cotton Fields, and a Mississippi Delta Community. In the western countryside of Panola County, Mississippi, near the boundary with neighboring Quitman County, lies a rural community known as Locke Station. Unlike the larger towns of Batesville, Sardis, and Marks, Locke Station has never developed into a prominent commercial center, yet its name has survived through government maps, transportation records, and other official documents that preserve the geography of northwestern Mississippi.

Panola County, MS · 1d

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Pope, Panola County: Railroads, Cotton, Churches, and the Schools of a Mississippi Town

Appalachian Community Histories – Pope, Panola County: Railroads, Cotton, Churches, and the Schools of a Mississippi Town. In the southern portion of Panola County, Mississippi, the small community of Pope developed beside a railroad that helped transform the surrounding countryside during the nineteenth century. What began as a settlement associated with railroad construction and agricultural land gradually became an incorporated municipality with churches, schools, merchants, mills, and a cotton trade that connected local farmers to markets beyond northern Mississippi. Although Pope never grew into a large commercial center, its history provides an important example of how transportation, agriculture, religion, education, and community organizations shaped the development of rural towns throughout the region.

Panola County, MS · 1d

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Tocowa, Panola County: Mineral Springs, a Historic Hotel, and a Forgotten Mississippi Resort Town

Appalachian Community Histories – Tocowa, Panola County: Mineral Springs, a Historic Hotel, and a Forgotten Mississippi Resort Town. In the wooded hills of southwestern Panola County, Mississippi, where the rolling bluffs descend toward the lowlands of the Mississippi Delta, there once stood a small town known for its mineral springs, country hotel, and reputation as a place of healing. The community was called Tocowa, although historical records also refer to the surrounding area as Tocowa Springs or Tocawa Springs Village. During the nineteenth century, its natural spring attracted visitors who believed that the water possessed medicinal properties, while the surrounding settlement developed into a small center of rural commerce, education, and community life.

Panola County, MS · 1d

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Pleasant Grove, Panola County: From a Rural Post Office to Schools, Churches, Baseball, and the Blues

Appalachian Community Histories – Pleasant Grove, Panola County: From a Rural Post Office to Schools, Churches, Baseball, and the Blues. Along Mississippi Highway 315, approximately ten miles west of Sardis, lies Pleasant Grove, a rural community whose history reflects the agricultural traditions, religious institutions, educational developments, and changing social conditions of northern Mississippi. Although Pleasant Grove never developed into a large incorporated town, its churches, stores, post office, school, and surrounding farms once provided important connections for families living in the western portion of Panola County.

Panola County, MS · 1d

The Panolian

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Batesville JH Chorus to join Oxford chorus for Winter Concert

The Batesville Junior High Chorus will join the Oxford Civic Chorus for its annual Winter Concert on Dec. 12, giving local students an opportunity to share the stage with more […]

Oxford, MS · 1d

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Horatio, Panola County: From a Rural Post Office to a Forgotten Mississippi Town

Appalachian Community Histories – Horatio, Panola County: From a Rural Post Office to a Forgotten Mississippi Town. In the countryside west of Sardis, Mississippi, once stood a small community known as Horatio, a place whose name has largely disappeared from modern maps but whose history survives through scattered postal records, early twentieth-century directories, and references to one of Panola County’s historic churches. Unlike the larger communities of Sardis, Batesville, and Como, Horatio never became a major commercial center, and its surviving documentation offers only fragments of the lives and institutions that once defined it.

Panola County, MS · 1d

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Sardis, Panola County: Railroads, Historic Courthouses, Sardis Dam, and Civil Rights

Appalachian Community Histories – Sardis, Panola County: Railroads, Historic Courthouses, Sardis Dam, and Civil Rights. In the northern reaches of Mississippi, where the rolling hills of Panola County give way to the fertile lands of the Mississippi Delta, the town of Sardis developed from a small nineteenth-century settlement into an important center of government, commerce, transportation, and architectural history. Its streets preserve reminders of a time when railroads determined the fortunes of neighboring communities, county courthouses represented political influence, and cotton, timber, and agriculture supported much of the regional economy.

Panola County, MS · 1d

The Commercial Appeal

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Freelance reporter, anchor Rob Sneed let go by Fox13 Memphis

Freelance Fox13 reporter and anchor Rob Sneed has been laid off by the TV station, Sneed said in a social media post . Posted in the evening of Nov. 5, Sneed said the station had cut him and that it had been a financial decision. He added that he came to Fox13 "under previous management with promises that were never fulfilled." In an email, a representative of Fox13 said it was an HR issue and the station did not comment on HR issues. Sneed said in the post he came to Memphis after spending about a year away from television news. He started with Fox13 in March. "I wasn't chasing a paycheck. I was chasing a second chance," he wrote. "And Memphis/Mid-South you made that step out on faith worth it." Sneed thanked viewers and Fox13 and wished his former colleagues at the station the best. He said he did not know what his next steps were, but that he was open to opportunities in television news, communications and public relations. Sneed's LinkedIn page shows he previously worked in TV news in Columbus, Ohio, Chicago and Huntsville, Alabama. "My story is far from over. I'm so sorry to anyone who's

Memphis, TN · 1d

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The Trailer and the Grid: Inside Elon Musk’s Next Relocation Gambit

Following a catastrophic showing in Texas politics last week, one in which his financially-backed Republican candidates were swept out of office after he blew through some $250 million of his fortune, tech’s favorite parlor game is, Where in the world is Elon Musk moving?. Consider this scene: On a...

Memphis, TN · 1d

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Evan Linder brings “Byhalia, Mississippi” to Theatre Memphis

Native Memphian Evan Linder's play "Byhalia, Mississippi" earned widespread acclaim following its 2016 premiere, receiving six Non-Equity Jeff Award nominations and winning three, including Best New Work. Linder joined Kacky Walton to discuss the play, which was later remounted at Steppenwolf's 1700 Theatre and produced at the Kennedy Center in...

Memphis, TN · 3d

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Memphis sailor killed in Pearl Harbor attack identified

MEMPHIS, Tenn. (WMC) - A Memphis sailor who was aboard the USS California during the attack on Pearl Harbor has been identified. Fireman 3rd Class John Winter Martin was lost during the Dec. 7, 1941, attack. His remains have now been identified. The USS California was struck by two torpedoes...

Memphis, TN · 10h

Tennessee Tribune

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Last Surviving Member of ‘Memphis State Eight’ Pens Memoirs

MEMPHIS, TN – Bertha Rogers Looney is the last surviving member of the “Memphis State Eight,” a group of Black students who broke the color barrier in the fall of 1959 when they enrolled at Memphis State University. That year, 4,500 students had enrolled at the university....

Memphis, TN · 1d

whatnow.com

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Indoor Golf Facility Eying New Memphis Market

A popular and rapidly expanding indoor golf concept is hoping to slice its way into a new Memphis market. The Back Nine Golf franchisee Jeff Herman is scouting potential locations for a new area location, reports the Daily Memphian. Herman can already claim two area locations-one already open and operational...

Memphis, TN · 2d

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K. Carbon Explains Why West Memphis Is Not Memphis: “You In a Whole New State”

Rapper K. Carbon is making one thing clear: just because a city has Memphis in its name doesn’t mean Memphis natives claim it as part of their hometown. During a recent appearance on The Baller Alert Show, the Memphis rapper broke down the difference between Memphis, Tennessee, and West Memphis, Arkansas, explaining why locals don’t consider the two places the same.

West Memphis, AR · 4d

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David Evans and the Sound of the Mississippi Hill Country (Part One)

David Evans, an ethnomusicologist, musician and foremost expert on Hill Country blues, began documenting the region’s musicians in 1969, recording artists and community music traditions through the 1970s and into the early ’80s. A professor emeritus at the University of Memphis, Evans produced records by R.L. Burnside, Junior Kimbrough and Jessie Mae Hemphill through the university’s High Water label, helping bring their music to audiences beyond northern Mississippi. He is the author of Big Road Blues: Tradition and Creativity in the Folk Blues (1982), a foundational study of the genre, and was inducted into the Blues Hall of Fame in 2023.

Mississippi · 5d