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

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 ...

The story of Black History Month begins in 1915. At this time, scholar Carter G. Woodson founded what today is called the ...

The Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. deserves to have his legacy of non-violence, love and justice recalled in the context of Catholic social teaching.

Residents of all ages gathered at the Carmine Carro Community Center in Marine Park on Saturday morning, February 1st, to ...

When my children and I heard the gunfire ... When my husband was buried at Arlington National Cemetery, Roy Wilkins, the head of the NAACP, remarked, “Medgar Evers believed in his country; it remains ...

Iconic songs by Sam Cooke, Kim Weston, Public Enemy, Nina Simone, Marvin Gaye, Lauryn Hill, Kendrick Lamar and more depict ...

Susan L. Taylor is the trailblazing former Editor-In-Chief and Beauty Editor of ESSENCE Magazine. Not only is she known for ...

Jackson, MS () Mississippi has a long history of voter suppression. An 1890 rule that permanently strips people convicted of certain crimes of their right to ...