By TRAVIS LOLLER NASHVILLE, Tenn. (AP) — Bernard LaFayette, the advance man who did the risky groundwork for the voter registration campaign in Selma, Alabama, that culminated in the passage of the Voting Rights Act of 1965, has died. Bernard LaFayette,…
A trail marker was unveiled in the state to honor a champion of Civil Rights. A marker was unveiled on February 25th for Annie Devine of Canton.…
By EMILY WAGSTER PETTUS KOSCIUSKO, Miss. (AP) — A new historical marker has been unveiled in the hometown of James Meredith, honoring the Black man who fought white supremacy by integrating the University of Mississippi in 1962. Meredith, 91, wore a red Ole…
A piece of Mississippi history has made its way to New Jersey. Governor Tate Reeves was in Atlantic City for the unveiling of a…
A federal court has ordered Mississippi to redraw its 2022 state legislative maps in several areas after concluding those maps unlawfully dilute the voting strength of Black Mississippians. The ruling was issued Tuesday night and requires the creation of new…
Three former Department of Corrections officials were sentenced Wednesday for using excessive force against an inmate, involving the use of dangerous weapons and resulting in bodily injury. All three defendants previously pleaded guilty to their respective roles assaulting the…
BY DARLENE SUPERVILLE WASHINGTON (AP) — President Joe Biden will establish a national monument honoring Emmett Till, the Black teenager from Chicago who was abducted, tortured and killed in 1955 after he was accused of whistling at a white woman in Mississippi, and…
By HILLEL ITALIE NEW YORK (AP) — Harry Belafonte, the civil rights and entertainment giant who began as a groundbreaking actor and singer and became an activist, humanitarian and conscience of the world, has died. He was 96. Belafonte died…
By EMILY WAGSTER PETTUS JACKSON, Miss. (AP) — A Mississippi community with an elaborate Confederate monument plans to unveil a larger-than-life statue of Emmett Till on Friday, decades after white men kidnapped and killed the Black teenager for allegedly whistling at a…
By EMILY WAGSTER PETTUS, MATTHEW DALY and AARON MORRISON Associated Press JACKSON, Miss. (AP) - The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency has announced it is investigating whether Mississippi state agencies discriminated against the state’s majority-Black capital city by refusing to fund…
By EMILY WAGSTER PETTUS JACKSON, Miss. (AP) — Police in Mississippi’s capital city have agreed to pull back on aggressive roadblocks in response to a lawsuit that said Jackson officers were violating people’s constitutional right to be free of unreasonable search and…
By JAY REEVES By her own telling, Mississippi authorities provided Carolyn Bryant Donham with preferential treatment rather than prosecution after her encounter with Emmett Till led to the lynching of the Black teenager in the summer of 1955. Instead of arresting Donham…
By JIM MUSTIAN and JAKE BLEIBERG BATON ROUGE, La. (AP) — The U.S. Justice Department is opening a sweeping civil rights investigation into the Louisiana State Police amid mounting evidence that the agency has a pattern of looking the other…
It was a ceremonious rekindling of American history, the marker signifying the Biloxi Wade-In protests has been replaced after it was knocked down by storms. The Biloxi Wade-Ins…
By JAY REEVES The Justice Department is continuing its investigation into the killing of Emmett Till, the Black teenager whose slaying 65 years ago in Mississippi sparked outrage and illustrated the brutality of racism in the segregated South. The department’s…
JACKSON, Miss. (AP) — Never before seen case files, photographs and other records documenting the investigation into the infamous slayings of three civil rights workers in Mississippi are now open to the public for the first time, 57 years after…
By Stephen Sorace Martin Luther King Jr. carved his way into history as a civil rights hero whose influence and legacy continue to inspire people around the world more than half a century after his death. While the civil rights…
By EMILY WAGSTER PETTUS Associated Press JACKSON, Miss. (AP) — Charles Evers, the older brother of slain civil rights leader Medgar Evers and a longtime figure in Mississippi politics, has died in Mississippi. He was 97. A coroner says Evers…
As the nation continues to mourn the loss of Civil Rights Icon John Lewis, local Bay St. Louis artists are honoring his contribution to the Civil Rights movement with a mural. The mural came to be last week as the…
As the nation continues to mourn the loss of Civil Rights Icon John Lewis, local Bay St. Louis artists are honoring his contribution to the Civil Rights movement with a mural. The mural came to be last week as the…
It’s been 60 years since the Biloxi Wade-Ins when unarmed African American protesters suffered while taking a stand to desegregate the beaches. The Biloxi beaches are known as a place to lay in the sun and relax. In the 1960s,…
It’s been 60 years since the Biloxi Wade-Ins when unarmed African American protestors suffered while taking a stand to desegregate the beaches. To honor those like Dr. Gilbert R. Mason Sr. and Clemon P. Jimerson Sr., a memorial service will…
As Black History Month wraps up, we present to you our fourth and final installment of ‘Soul of the Coast.’ This week, News 25’s Victoria Bailey spends time with a Gulfport native, making waves on the Coast with her many…
As Black History Month marches on we continue to honor the struggles, sacrifices, and achievements African-Americans nationwide made to ensure equal rights for all. Here on the Coast we continue to shine a light on those who have made a…