When 2020 census results were released more than three years ago, they showed a 276% boom in the number of people classified as multiracial in the United States since 2010 ...

Charles Person was just 18 when he volunteered to join the Freedom Riders, who faced violent racism on their journey to integrate interstate travel.

Bill Clinton and Barack Obama previously took presidential oaths of office on Martin Luther King Jr. Day. However, in both ...

Essential books about racism for all readers When it comes to understanding race and social justice in this country, authors ...

Thursday concluded six days of national rites that began in Plains, where Carter, a former Naval officer, engineer and peanut farmer, was born in 1924, lived most of his life and died after 22 months ...

As people mourn and pay their respects to former president Jimmy Carter, local history professors are weighing in on the 39th ...

As President-elect Donald Trump prepares to take office, both conservative and liberal politicians say higher education ...

Charles Person, known as the youngest of the original 13 Freedom Riders, has died at 82. He passed away peacefully at his ...

Young Jimmy Carter and his friends were walking across a pasture after a day’s farm labor during the Great Depression. As ...

By Sid Salter Columnist Native Mississippian Wilson Golden is a proud “yellow dog” Democrat. A Marshall County product with ...

Childhood exposure to school segregation is associated with worse late-life cognitive outcomes among older Black adults, ...

More than 60 years ago, three Black nurses took a stand against segregation at Hampton’s Dixie Hospital, igniting a legal battle to advance civil rights. On Saturday, Hampton honored the women — ...