In the midst of ongoing, global injustice, activist Angela Davis spoke about how Birmingham emboldened her fight for ...

When I read the news of civil rights activist Claudette Colvin passing away this month, I looked at a list of other civil ...

In the quiet aftermath of the arson at Beth Israel Congregation in Jackson many described a feeling that was deeper than ...

A Mississippi federal district court denied summary judgment to the City of Jackson on the claims of an age-protected White golf course superintendent that he wasn’t promoted to recreational manager ...

The author expresses concern that current turmoil in the U.S. mirrors the Civil Rights Movement of the 1960s. Recent events ...

It is a strange and sorrowful thing to watch history come full circle like a stubborn ghost. On a cold January morning in Jackson, flames scorched the walls of the ...

Mississippi has approved a state historical marker in Natchez honoring civil rights leader George Metcalfe at the site where ...

Decades after his first arrest, Watkins finally received a formal apology from the city of Jackson, when Mayor John Horhn issued a statement on behalf of the city’s residents on Jan. 19, the day the ...

Hezekiah Watkins, the youngest Freedom Rider, spent five days in a cell on Mississippi's death row. Now, the city of Jackson ...

A Jackson, Mississippi synagogue was severely damaged in a suspected arson attack. Northminster Baptist Church offered its facilities to the Beth Israel Congregation while they rebuild. The two ...

Civil rights organizations on Sunday condemned the arson attack on Beth Israel Congregation and the Goldring/Woldenberg Institute of Southern Jewish Life building, Mississippi’s largest synagogue. The ...

FILE - Mississippi Supreme Court justices, right, listen to arguments in Jackson, Miss., July 6, 2023. JACKSON, Miss. (AP) — A judge on Friday ordered special elections for the Mississippi Supreme ...