The purge came after an executive order by President Trump to eliminate all Diversity, Equality and Inclusion programs.

The town of Fayette hosted a ceremony Feb. 28 for the unveiling of a Mississippi Freedom Trail marker honoring James Charles ...

SO THAT’S A FITTI A Mississippi Freedom maker will be unveiled Friday in Fayette to honor the life and legacy of civil rights leader James Charles Evers. Evers is the brother of slain civil rights ...

Visit Mississippi unveiled a Freedom Trail marker for James Charles Evers in Fayette. Evers, who was the brother of Medgar Evers, became a field director of the NAACP in Mississippi after his ...

Last November, we received the news that İlhan Sami Çomak had finally been granted his freedom—a moment that took many of us ...

Vicksburg was incorporated in 1825, and for 200 years it has been shaped and molded by all who have lived here. And while ...

More than 150 people gathered at the Lee County Library to hear investigative reporter and author Jerry Mitchell share stories from his book, "Race Against Time: A Reporter Reopens the Unsolved Murder ...

The Senate on Friday narrowly averted a government shutdown at midnight, passing a G.O.P.-written stopgap spending measure ...

They talked about Freedom Schools and the current political ... You don’t learn about people (like) Medgar Evers. You learn very little about Assata Shakur, about Ida B. Wells and Claudia ...

Mississippi is steeped in Black history and culture, from Civil Rights sites that spurred national change to the delta -the birthplace of the blues.

He saw how America called itself a defender of freedom while massacring Vietnamese ... against a system that still hasn’t changed. As Medgar Evers famously said, “You can kill a man, but ...