By Lauchlin Fields , LF Voices Collective Every family has a story, but many remain untold, hidden in old records, whispered among elders, or lost over time. As Vicksburg celebrates its 200th ...

Getting your Trinity Audio player ready... Every February, we as a city take the opportunity to share and explore an amazing and important aspect of our story – Our Black History. As the  oldest city ...

In honor of Black History Month, 16 WAPT News is recognizing important figures in Mississippi's history, including Medgar ...

Two Mississippi Museums is preparing to honor the legacy of the late Gov. William Winter.The museums will offer free ...

Among the events in the exhibit photographs are James Meredith’s admission to the University of Mississippi, the Selma to Montgomery marches, the sanitation workers’ strike, Martin Luther King Jr.’s ...

In honor of the late Mississippi Gov. William Winter, the Two Mississippi Museums will offer free admission to the public on Friday, February 21. The free admission ...

Shutterstock Walking the Mississippi Civil Rights Trail Mississippi was one of the epicenters of the civil rights struggle in ...

COFO. It stands for the Council of Federated Organizations and while many of you have never heard of it, COFO is an organization born in Mississippi, that was a crucial piece of the civil rights ...

While Till's accused killers, Roy Bryant and J. W. Milam, were acquitted by an all-white jury, the two later admitted to Till ...

Seventy years after the racist murder of Chicago teen Emmett Till in Mississippi helped inspire the civil rights movement, a ...

From Hattiesburg to Jackson and beyond, experience monumental Civil Rights sites along the Mississippi Freedom Trail!

McClatchy News reached out to the Montgomery Museum of Fine Arts on Feb. 3 but did ... another way to look at the billboard ...