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She was an artist who was studying anthropology when she became an activist in the civil rights movement and a rare woman to document Black life in photos.

Family members of Emmett Till are seeking justice for his 1955 death that helped launch the civil rights movement.

Filmmakers Brad Lichtenstein & Yoruba Richen discuss ‘American Reckoning,’ a documentary about civil-rights-era Black opposition to racist violence.

PBS "Frontline" documentary, "American Reckoning," focuses on the assassination of a Mississippi civil rights leader and armed resistance to the Ku Klux Klan.

Leading civil rights figures Dr. Alveda King, Wanda Evers and James Meredith were on hand for the America First Policy Institute Black History Month celebration at the Mississippi Civil Rights Museum Complex in downtown Jackson on Tuesday.  The event was chaired by former Governor Phil Bryant, who i

In recent months, conservative lawmakers and leaders alike have vowed to ban critical race theory from being taught in Mississippi’s public schools.

Louisiana is the only Deep South state that expanded Medicaid under the 2010 Affordable Care Act, which extended health care access for the working poor.

The poorest and blackest state in the US declined to expand Medicaid, leaving many citizens without coverage

STARKVILLE • William E. “Bill” Spell, who died Oct. 12 at age 96, was the last major figure in what most Mississippians recall as the most sordid and bizarre political

No one group has done more to damage our global agriculture and food quality than the Rockefeller Foundation. They began in the early 1950s after the War to fund two Harvard Business School professors to develop vertical integration which they...