JACKSON, Miss. — Civil rights advocates today challenged Mississippi’s 2022 state legislative district maps for unlawfully diluting the voting strength of Black Mississippians. The American Civil ...

Mississippi’s warts-and-all approach to reflecting its history as part of the state’s official commemoration of the nation’s ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Jim West/UCG/Universal Images Group via Getty Images The National Park Service is accused of pulling material from a civil rights ...

Mississippi political leaders, alongside national figures such as President Donald J. Trump, shared their reactions and condolences on Tuesday, Feb. 17, following the death of civil rights icon Rev.

It's been 70 years since the lynching of Emmett Till, a black teenager from Chicago who was visiting family in Mississippi. White men kidnapped, tortured, shot and dumped him in a river. Today the ...

JACKSON, Miss. (AP) — A Democratic civil rights attorney who has advocated for better treatment of prisoners and testified against Mississippi’s diversity, equity and inclusion ban said Thursday that ...

Freedom Trail marker on Farish Street honors three Jackson attorneys who risked their lives fighting for civil rights and justice in Mississippi Mississippi’s newest Freedom Trail marker was unveiled ...

Mississippi civil rights leader John Perkins, 95, died Friday, March 13. He was at home under hospice care, with his wife and family, his daughter, V. Elizabeth Perkins, said. "To the world, he was Dr ...

JACKSON, Miss. (AP) — Charles Evers, the older brother of slain civil rights leader Medgar Evers and a longtime figure in Mississippi politics, has died in Mississippi. He was 97. A coroner says Evers ...

FILE - Attorney Cliff Johnson, director of the Roderick and Solange MacArthur Justice Center, speaks during a hearing Wednesday, May 10, 2023, in Hinds County Chancery Court in Jackson, Miss. (AP ...