Black Union Soldiers Honored at Vicksburg Civil War Battlefield
The Civil War battlefield in Vicksburg, Miss., honored the memory of 18 Black soldiers and two white officers who fought for the Union.
The Civil War battlefield in Vicksburg, Miss., honored the memory of 18 Black soldiers and two white officers who fought for the Union.
The Poplar Hill Museum of African American Culture preserves the history of rural, Black education in Jefferson County, Miss.
Art curator and creator Alexis Noble identified a need for opportunity in Jackson’s creative community and birthed a solution: The Mash Up.
A new leader will helm the federal investigation into Mississippi’s $77-million welfare scandal after the U.S. Senate voted to confirm Todd Gee as the U.S. attorney for the Southern District of Mississippi on Friday, Sept. 29.
Byram native James Tucker opened his own Jackson-based home-repair business, J & T Home Remodel & Repair, in 2020.
The latest round of hospital closures and cuts suggest Mississippi’s health care “system is burning to the ground” while Gov. Tate Reeves rejects Medicaid expansion, Democratic candidate for governor Brandon Presley says.
Entergy Mississippi gave $60,000 in grants to eight Mississippi communities for marketing, strategic planning and site work.
Medgar and Myrlie Evers both dedicated their lives to fighting, as he put it, “until every vestige of segregation and discrimination in America becomes annihilated.”
The Natchez U.S. Colored Troops Monument Project voted unanimously to commission Jay Warren to design a monument to the thousands of U.S. Colored Troops from Natchez.
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