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Utah college votes to keep 'Dixie' in name amid controversy

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theGRIO REPORT - The board of trustees at a college in Utah has unanimously voted to keep the word "Dixie" in its name despite critics saying the word has a racially insensitive link with the Civil War-era Confederacy...
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Missouri State University chief sorry band played 'Dixie'

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SPRINGFIELD, Mo. (AP) - Missouri State University is apologizing after its band performed 'Dixie' at a site where three black men were lynched in 1906...
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KKK rally briefly before LSU-Ole Miss game

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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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