A new ProPublica analysis shows a stark pattern across states in the Deep South: Alongside majority-Black public school districts, a separate web of private academies are filled almost entirely with ...

In Mississippi, we identified 20 schools that likely opened as segregation academies and have received almost $10 million over the past six years from the state’s tax credit donation program.

Jimmy Carter's evolution from his upbringing in the segregated Jim Crow South to becoming a champion for civil rights.

ProPublica identified 155 counties across the Deep South with private schools that likely opened as segregation academies. Roughly three dozen of those schools are in Mississippi. One in Amite ...

President Joe Biden awarded the Presidential Medal of Freedom to Civil Rights icon Fannie Lou Hamer, who is the 11th ...

The inside story of James Meredith's war against racial segregation in 1960s America ... person to apply to the all-white university of Mississippi - Meredith will draw in the KKK and JFK ...

After getting kicked out of the University of Mississippi for organising protests and events against segregation, Mr Gorton joined the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee (SNCC), the "Marine ...

ProPublica identified 155 counties across the Deep South with private schools that likely opened as segregation academies. Roughly three dozen of those schools are in Mississippi. One in Amite County ...

By Sid Salter Columnist Native Mississippian Wilson Golden is a proud “yellow dog” Democrat. A Marshall County product with ...