History Month (AAHM) release from BlackEconomoics.org. It was invited by the Jackson Advocate of Jackson (MedgarEversville), Mississippi. The Jackson Advocate is an 87-year-old Black newspaper known ...
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 ...
The Blues Trail was created nearly two decades ago with markers located at significant places that helped shape the genre.
The outbreak of World War II resulted in a large number of white men leaving their well-paying steel mill jobs in the Valley, creating an employment void for unskilled labor that African-Americans ...
GREENVILLE-In 1979, the firehouse was a space dominated by men. But in Greenville, one woman changed that. Laverne Sing ...
He later moved to Mississippi, where he was appointed ... He became the first African American elected as a state governor in 1990 and unsuccessfully sought the Democratic nomination for president ...