For many Americans, Donald Trump’s head-spinning array of executive orders in the early days of his second term look like an ...

Members of the community participate in a march honoring Dr. Martin Luther King Jr., Monday, Jan. 20, 2025, in Southside ...

A mere picture is said to speak a thousand words, but the pictures of Bob Adelman speak volumes more as they chronicle more ...

As a teen raised in the Rust Belt in the 1960s, Alan Cashaw wasn’t blind to the fact that racism existed. But he also knew ...

A “homegoing” service will be held Feb. 28 for longtime state lawmaker and civil-rights leader Geraldine Thompson, who died last week at age 76.

She was attacked by mounted police officers on "Bloody Sunday" in Selma. Her efforts, along with "Bloody Sunday," were ...

Small communities can practise direct democracy: people meet and decide, or vote, on decisions concerning them all. In large ...

The 60th Anniversary of some of the most momentous events in American History will be celebrated and memorialized in Selma, ...

The state forged several firsts in racial equality and equal justice, but state laws now target all things diverse, writes ...

I don’t want another person to go through what I did. I want the God-given dignity of all men and women recognized by the ...

As part of the successful effort to advance racial equality, many mass gatherings and actions were performed over the ...

In honor of Black History Month, 16 WAPT News is recognizing important figures in Mississippi's history, including Medgar ...