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One of the highlights of my genealogical journey has been the great privilege I have had to spend two decades corresponding with grandchildren and great-grandchildren of the owner of my ...

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The birthplace of the Blues — and much of American music — lies in Mississippi’s northwest corner.

Think of slavery and the first image that comes to mind is a 19th-century Southern cotton plantation. However, by the 1630s, slavery already existed in all 13 colonies with the first enslaved Africans ...

The winning numbers in Tuesday's drawing of the "Mississippi Cash 3 Evening" game were: ...

After a fire engulfed a mansion at Louisiana’s Nottoway Plantation, one of the largest remaining pre-Civil War houses in the ...

Louisiana’s Nottoway Plantation was one of the largest remaining pre-Civil War houses in the Deep South, where scores of ...

The NAACP in Jackson, Mississippi, gave posthumous honors to three civil rights trailblazers, who "sacrificed everything" for ...

If ever a farm had secrets, Prospect Hill is the keeper of ghosts. The former cotton plantation conceals one of the most ...

The remarkable success of the movie “Sinners” has sparked a renewed interest in how the two communities wrestled with life ...