Do you know why Jackson is the state capital? The city was founded in 1821. Here's this history of how it became the seat of ...

Mississippi is steeped in Black history and culture, from Civil Rights sites that spurred national change to the delta -the birthplace of the blues.

STARKVILLE, Miss.—As students return to classrooms this fall, a new textbook revised by a Mississippi State veteran educator sheds new light on the Magnolia State’s history. Kenneth Anthony (Photo by ...

JACKSON, Miss. — It's been 70 years since the lynching of Emmett Till, a Black teenager from Chicago who was visiting relatives in Mississippi. White men kidnapped, tortured, shot, and dumped him in a ...

The weapon used to kill Black teenager Emmett Till in one of the most notorious lynchings that helped ignite the civil rights movement is now on display at a museum in the Deep South. Emmett was just ...

Republican Mississippi Gov. Tate Reeves defended declaring April as Confederate History Month, telling the Daily Caller in an exclusive interview that he thinks “everyone should learn from our history ...

U.S. Senator Roger Wicker, R-Miss., and Mary Werner, Mississippi Education Board Member, penned an op-ed in Mississippi Today on the importance of keeping the U.S. history assessment in public schools ...