Tennessee has long been a battleground for courageous, strategic, and non-violent direct action – from the Clinton 12 to the ...

Sixty years ago today the Selma to Montgomery Voting Rights March concluded with Martin Luther King Jr. speaking before a ...

A 3-year-old child was killed Saturday night after he apparently accidentally shot himself. Leflore County Coroner Debra ...

Martin Luther King Jr. Day is a U.S. holiday and national day of service. It took a long time for the country to get there It was first proposed four days after King's 1968 assassination outside a ...

Owner Kelvin Anderson Sr. wants the project to tell the story of Black music — and the role that VIP records has played in ...

Even in the turbulence of the day, colleges and universities must keep building new, more inclusive pathways that give ...

Stokes, a Democrat, will be running unopposed in the April 1 primary. He will face Jackson, who is running as an Independent, ...

Andrew “FoFo” Gilich has been mayor of Biloxi for 10 years He faces three candidates in his quest for four more.

Lane Nichols takes a luxury cruise down the mighty Mississippi River and falls in love with New Orleans jazz music, Delta ...

With the comedic classic “The Hangover” booked as the closer at next month’s Ebertfest, we asked 10 former Illini in show biz ...

The window for no-excuse early voting for Missouri's April 8 school and special election starts on Tuesday, March 25.

Exploring the incredible legacy left by the defiant performer and songwriter Nina Simone, particularly her 1966 song 'Four Women', which typified the era.