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NEWS: Remember Will Norton, the ex-University of Mississippi journalism school dean?

He resigned as the unearthed #UMEmails revealed exchanges with a donor who'd sent him photos of Black women students, calling them "African hookers."

Well, he's back. 1/mississippifreepress.org/16257/ex-dean-…
After the #UMEmails revealed racist, sexist & homophobic emails, Will Norton appeared to depart the university in May.

But now he's returned to the campus, serving as a senior fellow at the Overby Center for Southern Journalism and Politics. 2/mississippifreepress.org/16257/ex-dean-…
Donor: "Ole Miss (has) problems when Black hookers are working on Jackson Ave...I know what happens when a place is taken over by the wrong elements."

Then-Dean Will Norton: "I've been disappointed for a long time with the way this culture is going." 3/
mississippifreepress.org/16257/ex-dean-… screenshot of the quoted emails
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NEW: When the University of Mississippi fired historian Garrett Felber in 2020, he said it was about his anti-racist views—a claim UM rejected.

But emails show officials grew concerned after he spoke publicly against UM's ties to a private prison company.
mississippifreepress.org/14250/emails-s…
In December 2019, Dr. Felber spoke to an audience of prison abolitionists about UM's history of slavery and its historic ties to the prison system.

Then, he turned his attention to an instructor on campus: nationally renowned journalist Charles Overby. mississippifreepress.org/14250/emails-s…
Charles Overby was chair of the Freedom Forum, which was over the Newseum in Washington, D.C., from 1989 to 2011.

In 2001, the Freedom Forum donated $5 million to establish a new center on campus: The Overby Center For Southern Journalism and Politics. mississippifreepress.org/14250/emails-s…
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