On Friday, friends and family of the youngest of the 13 original Freedom Riders gathered at the historic Ebenezer Baptist ...

Juan Williams’ latest dissection of the Civil Rights Movement, “New Prize for These Eyes: The Rise of America’s Second Civil Rights Movement,” is a masterful sequel to his 1987 best-seller — “Eyes on ...

Ahead of the spring semester, nine students traveled to Washington, D.C., and Jackson, Mississippi, as part of a community-engaged learning trip led by the Swearer Center and in partnership with ...

"Remember, there isn't a single law we can pass that will suddenly create a perfect world. Justice lives here when we use our ...

Copyright 2025 The Associated Press. All Rights Reserved. U.S. Interior Secretary Deb Haaland talks to The Associated Press ...

I Have a Dream” — on the steps of the Lincoln Memorial as part of the March on Washington on Aug. 28, 1963. But his D.C.

For the second consecutive time, the Mississippi Civil Rights Museum in Jackson has been nominated for the best history ...

From Zora Neale Hurston’s historical novel The Life of Herod The Great to Charmaine Wilkerson’s Good Dirt, this list provides a curated list for avid readers across the spectrum of genres.

Myrlie Evers writes: "My husband believed that Mississippi could be a wonderful place if we handled the problems of race, ...

The Mississippi Civil Rights Museum (MCRM) has been nominated – for the second consecutive time – for the Best History Museum ...

The King of Blues, B.B. King, and civil rights activist Medgar Wiley Evers were given a centennial celebration for all of ...