As the nation approaches its 250th birthday, the Mississippi Civil Rights Museum in Jackson document sone of the country’s ...

Heading out to learn Mississippi this summer? This is a list of state landmarks that shaped the Black civil rights movement ...

On June 6, 1966, on a stretch of Highway 51 just south of Hernando, Mississippi, a portly, middle-aged white man named Aubrey ...

In two weeks, Americans will celebrate the 250th Independence Day—the occasion when our founders proclaimed to the world that ...

Vernon Dahmer was a voting rights and civil rights activist in Mississippi in the 1960s. He was a prominent and prosperous businessman in his community. While his colleague and friend Medgar Evers ...

The Mississippi Civil Rights Museum is celebrating being ranked the fourth-best museum across the country in USA Today’s Top 10 Best Readers’ Choice Awards. The Mississippi Children’s Museum earned ...

If you can face the entrance of the Mississippi Civil Rights Museum in Jackson with intrepidity, view its contents with super focus and depart without a shaky voice, consider yourself strong-willed.

Florence Mars was born on New Year’s Day, 1923, in Neshoba County, Mississippi, a remote patch in the center of the state, where red clay makes it difficult to farm row crops. The Mars family dealt in ...

Some of the officers were part of a group so willing to use excessive force they called themselves the Goon Squad. All six were sentenced in March, receiving terms of 10 to 40 years. The charges ...

JACKSON, Miss. — Six former Mississippi police officers, including some calling themselves "The Goon Squad," pleaded guilty Thursday to a racist assault on two Black men that ended with an officer ...

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 ...