Editor’s note: Historian Derrion Arrington reflects on early positions taken by Robert Clark, who in 1967 became the first ...

Between praising a Southern white supremacists group and not recalling much from the civil rights movement during his formative years in the South, Andrew Ferguson's profile of Haley Barbour has ...

As Mississippi lawmakers revisit school choice, Natchez and Adams County leaders voice concerns about potential impacts on ...

A lot is being said these days about “school choice.” At first glance, it sounds like progress—like empowerment. After all, who wouldn’t want more choices for their child? But in Mississippi, what’s ...

Theatre Oxford’s “Split In Three” takes us to the Mississippi Delta in 1969 as two sisters, both white, discover they have a ...

Once barred from Ole Miss, James Meredith is now a symbol of its evolution. And ours. Even as the administration tries to turn back the clock.

JACKSON, Miss. — It's been 70 years since the lynching of Emmett Till, a Black teenager from Chicago who was visiting relatives in Mississippi. White men kidnapped, tortured, shot, and dumped him in a ...

By Marlee Bunch, article courtesy of newsone.com It wasn’t called voter suppression back then, but civil rights activist Fannie Lou Hamer knew exactly how white authorities in Mississippi felt about ...

This is an archived article and the information in the article may be outdated. Please look at the time stamp on the story to see when it was last updated. JACKSON, Miss. (AP) — Hollis Watkins, who ...