The grandson of a Mississippi civil rights leader is charged with murder.James Knight, 16, is one of two teenagers accused in ...

The grandson of Mississippi Civil Rights leader James Meredith, the first Black student at Ole Miss, is facing a murder charge in Hinds County.

The grandson of civil rights activist James Meredith has been charged with the murder of a former Germantown High School ...

A Democratic civil rights attorney who has advocated for better treatment of prisoners and testified against Mississippi’s ...

Fannie Lou Hamer’s Presidential Medal of Freedom will go on display in the next few months at the Two Mississippi Museums.

Hamer was diagnosed with late-stage breast cancer in 1976 which halted her activism. She died of breast cancer complications ...

This is an opinion column. Yesterday is today’s foundation. It reveals our strengths and cracks. That’s why I love history. It cannot be changed and ignoring it only leads to ignorance — to the risk ...

Civil rights organizations around the country are preparing for the Trump administration’s crackdown on progressive-aligned groups, Bryan Fair, President of the Southern Poverty Law Center, told ...

People in Mississippi remember and reflect on the contributions of the slain civil rights leader Medgar Evers on what would have been his 100th birthday. Today would have been Medgar Evers' 100th ...

The shutdown means there is, essentially, no Education Department. The latest round of layoffs would leave few workers to ...