Sierra Mannie

Sierra Mannie is a writer based in Mississippi.

Recent Articles

If Mississippi Lawmakers Won't Deal With the Flag, Students Will

Associated Student Body senators voted Tuesday to remove the state's Confederate flag from campus

By Sierra Mannie

Dear White Mississippi Politicians: It's Our State, Too

The Confederate flag and Mississippi's state flag that contains it are inescapable symbols of the subjugation of black Southerners

By Sierra Mannie

Harriet Tubman On the $20 Bill Is Chump Change

Black women have served and suffered in America for hundreds of years—putting one on a $20 feels like a weak pat on the back

By Sierra Mannie

A Young Southern Woman Remembers the Fear and Shame of Being Whooped

The difference between a spanking and child abuse has nothing to do with race

By Sierra Mannie

Dear Ole Miss: Minorities Are Done Being Haunted by Confederate Ghosts

Clinging to nostalgia will only hold back everyone at our university

By Sierra Mannie

Dear White Gays: Stop Stealing Black Female Culture

You are not a black woman, and you do not get to claim either blackness or womanhood. There is a clear line between appreciation and appropriation

By Sierra Mannie
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