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I will be honest with you. Up until this year, I had never been extremely involved in political campaigns. Even though I always believed that exercising your right to vote is part of your civic duty as a citizen of the United States (I have never missed an election), I had never volunteered my time to campaign for (or against) a political candidate or ballot initiative.

For nearly 30 years, the University of Mississippi has been the home of the personal letters of Margaret Mitchell, the Pulitzer Prize-winning author of “Gone with the Wind.”

These historic letters were presented to the J.D. Williams Library by the sponsors of the Brickell Collection, a respected historical collection of literature and personal works of deceased authors.

To the editor,

It appears that many people, including columnist Lexi Thoman, misunderstand the meaning of a feminist. As Lexi so aptly put, a feminist is “a person who advocates equal rights for women.” However, Ms. Thoman gave no regard to what was possibly the most important word in her definition: advocate.

The National Association of Black Journalists (NABJ) recently released an open letter to cable news executives about their respective networks’ lack of diversity.

For full disclosure, I am a member of NABJ.