Republican leadership is pushing policies that leave working people behind and protect their wealthy campaign donors and ...

Federal funding for the Mississippi Humanities Council was cut, effective immediately. Here's how the cuts may affect you.

As a cofounder of the Mississippi Freedom Democratic Party, she came to national prominence at the 1964 Democratic National Convention. The quest of the MFDP was to replace the white party ...

Adams helped establish the Mississippi Freedom Democratic Party in 1964 and was honored in 2004 at the Democratic National Convention in Boston for her efforts to integrate Mississippi's ...

The mayor of Mississippi’s capital city, who’s under indictment on federal bribery and conspiracy charges, is fighting to ...

when she and other delegates from the Mississippi Freedom Democratic Party were not seated at the national Democratic convention. Instead, the all-white Democratic Party delegation was seated.