Person of the Day | Dorie Ann Ladner, Hattiesburg Civil-Rights Activist, Dies at 81
Longtime civil-rights activist Dorie Ann Ladner of Hattiesburg, Miss., died on March 11, 2024, at 81.
Longtime civil-rights activist Dorie Ann Ladner of Hattiesburg, Miss., died on March 11, 2024, at 81.
Attorneys arguing that Mississippi’s state House and Senate maps are illegal racial gerrymanders are making closing arguments.
The Civil War battlefield in Vicksburg, Miss., honored the memory of 18 Black soldiers and two white officers who fought for the Union.
Fulton County District Attorney Fani Willis’ testimony about her relationship with a special prosecutor was a familiar scene for many Black women.
Former Rep. Alyce Clarke was the first Black woman elected to the Mississippi Legislature. Her portrait is now on display in the state Capitol.
A painting of two generals raising a Confederate flag remains memorialized in the Mississippi Capitol rotunda’s dome. A senator wants it removed.
A 10-year-old Black boy who was arrested for public urination in Senatobia will no longer have to serve probation or write an essay on Kobe Bryant.
“Origin,” a new film based on Isabel Wilkerson’s book “Caste: The Origin of Our Discontents,” stars Mississippian Aunjanue Ellis-Taylor.
Bernice King, the Rev. Martin Luther King Jr.’s daughter, says the world urgently needs to study and adopt her father’s philosophy of nonviolence.
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