State College commemorated the sixth year of its Juneteenth celebration with the theme "Juneteenth: Our Freedom, Our Fight, ...

“Just like with the changing of the Confederate flag, I became a member of the state legislature in 2011,” noted Simmons. “I ...

According to a 2024 Congressional Research Service report, at least 30 states and the District of Columbia have designated ...

People of faith gathered again at Mother Emanuel AME on Tuesday just like they did 10 years ago, searching for God’s truth ...

It was 160 years ago that enslaved people in Galveston, Texas, learned they had been freed — after the Civil War’s end and ...

Mississippi residents voted in a 2001 statewide election to keep the Confederate emblem on the flag. However, several Mississippi cities and counties, along with all eight public universities ...

Va., criticized President Donald Trump's plan to restore the names of Fort Lee and other installations formerly named for ...

Representative Jim Jordan (R-OH) is being bombarded with images of protestors flying Confederate flags after he wrote, "We fly the American flag in America." The X post, published on Tuesday ...

This simple dish towel was used as a flag of truce by Confederate troops during Gen. Robert E. Lee’s surrender at Appomattox Court House, Virginia, on April 9, 1865, and is now on display at the ...

Many state holidays in Mississippi sync up with federal holidays, but not all of them, according to the list from the Department of Finance and Administration. Wednesday, Jan. 1 : New Year's Day.

A post-Civil War era brick kiln, likely built by freed slaves, has been unearthed in Marshall County, Mississippi. The kiln was discovered by archaeologists surveying land for a planned highway ...