Mothers and advocates with the Black Women’s Roundtable gathered at the Capitol Thursday and called on the Legislature to ...

Located in northwestern Tulsa, Okla., the neighborhood was alive with Black political and economic power during the early ...

Fine artist Ray Brown is the 2025 SEWE featured artist, bringing his distinctive black-and-white charcoal animal portraits to ...

Growing up in Jackson, Mississippi, Taylor Bowen-Ricketts loved her trips to Hammond, Louisiana to visit her grandparents on her mother’s side. Their names were Fan and Johnny, and Taylor recalls they ...

The son of slaves, Ottaway Gurley would become a multi-millionaire and one of the richest African-Americans in the country.

Shutterstock Walking the Mississippi Civil Rights Trail Mississippi was one of the epicenters of the civil rights struggle in ...

It is a cancer that is preventable and highly treatable if people have access to the right kind of medical professionals and ...

If approved, the plan would provide cash payments, a new hospital and the potential returning of land to descendants of the ...

Launched in 2011, the Mississippi Freedom ... just a few miles outside of Greenwood. Young Emmett Till entered the store to ...

The street began to be called Greenwood Avenue after the city in Mississippi. He started a rooming ... reports of lynchings across the state by 1921. When a black man was accused of raping a white ...

Hunting laws updates: Mississippi House passes mandatory deer harvest reporting, turkey stamps. What's next? A GPS unit used to track LeeBeth, a 14-foot, 2,600-pound great white shark that swam ...

Human rights activists have determined that the state of Mississippi and the federal government failed to prevent Black women in the rural Mississippi Delta region from dying of cervical cancer.