The National Folk Festival will hold a one-day kickoff event this weekend. Jackson was selected in May to be the host city ...

They visited the Mississippi Civil Rights Museum and the Memphis Rock 'n' Soul Museum. Tour participants enjoyed soul food and live music at the Ground Zero Blues Club in Clarksdale, Mississippi.

The James Wilson Kilby African American Museum and Education Center — the first African American history museum in the county ...

The Mobile Carnival Museum is a must-visit for anyone wanting to learn more ... is a popular spot to learn about Voodoo Queen ...

A Mississippi civil rights pioneer, who was born in Hattiesburg, has been honored by the Mississippi Humanities Council and ...

The Mississippi Senate discriminated against a Black attorney by paying her about half of what her white colleagues were paid ...

Under Trump, a new vision of conservative family policy is ascendant.

JACKSON, Miss. (WLBT) - The United States Justice Department is suing the Mississippi State Senate ... the salary of her white colleagues in violation of Title VII of the Civil Rights Act of 1964.” ...

The Equal Justice Initiative (EJI) has added a statue of civil rights champion John Lewis to its Legacy Plaza in Montgomery.

MONTGOMERY, Ala. -- A statue of the late U.S. Rep. John Lewis, a civil rights icon, has been unveiled in Alabama's capital ...

Brazil launched what it called a social summit Thursday ahead of next week’s Group of 20 meeting of top economies, the first ...