Freedom Trail marker on Farish Street honors three Jackson attorneys who risked their lives fighting for civil rights and ...

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 ...

JACKSON, Miss. (WDAM) - The Mississippi Department of Archives and History has announced that the gun and its holster used in 14-year-old Emmett Till’s murder have been acquired. The Foundation for ...

The teenage grandson of Mississippi Civil Rights leader James Meredith is facing a murder charge for the death of 17-year-old Saleh Ghasan Humaid. James Howard Meredith Knight, 16, is one of two ...

From Lamar Smith in Mississippi to Harry and Harriette Moore in Florida, Black activists were murdered for voting rights.