The W.K. Kellogg Foundation is donating $4.7 million to eight organizations in New Orleans and two coalitions in Mississippi devoted to uplifting young men and…

On Sunday, Anthony Hervey, a 49-year-old Black man from Oxford, Mississippi known for supporting the state Confederate flag, was killed in a car accident. Hervey’s 2005…

Officials are investigating the death of 39-year-old Jonathan Sanders, who passed away Wednesday evening after having an altercation with a police officer. According to The Grio: Stewart…

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President Barack Obama encouraged the nation to work harder to heal rifts between police and citizens during a Friday ceremony at the U.S. Capitol in honor of fallen…

.@SUBWAY you have employees advocating cop killing while in work uniform. pic.twitter.com/Y25mJr7JXq — John Cardillo (@johncardillo) May 10, 2015 A Subway restaurant worker is out…

The family of Otis Byrd, the man who was found hanging from a tree in Mississippi last month, has hired a well-renowned medical examiner to…

UPDATE: 5:30 P.M. EST The Claiborne County branch of the NAACP has announced that the man found hanging from a tree in Mississippi is 54-year-old Otis Byrd.…

Republican Mississippi state Rep. Gene Alday (pictured) is backtracking on an interview that was published by a local paper where he allegedly made incendiary and…

Blanche Kelso Bruce (Mississippi) was elected to full six year term in the U.S. Senate on this date in 1874.

JACKSON, Miss.  — Commemorating the 150th anniversary of the Civil War can be an angst-filled task in Mississippi, with its long history of racial strife…