The Rev. Ed King, a white minister who challenged Mississippi’s dangerously segregated society in the 1960s and was one of ...

As America heads toward its 250th anniversary, Vicksburg is revisiting the July 4, 1863 surrender that changed history.

CHESTER — Fannie Lou Hamer didn’t learn she had the right to vote until she was 44 years old. Hamer, a Black sharecropper who hadn’t graduated from middle school, was radicalized by this information.

Mississippi has been central to America’s evolution, contributing to defining freedom, equality, and justice through wars, ...