Mississippi

Governor Phil Bryant shows he is just as racist as we would expect.

They are facing a runoff on Nov. 27.

Wrong outfit for election day.

I walked up to the front of the school, looked up, saw the sign for Obama’s name. And I fought back tears.

Talameika and Charles Brice were enlisted by the Jackson Arts Council to paint a mural of Barack Obama at the Barack Obama Magnet School.

The state-declared holiday promotes hate.

Sheena Allen, 29, has launched CapWay to help underserved communities learn more about the importance of financial literacy.

The descendants of slaves and slave owners held a meeting at Prospect Hill plantation in Mississippi.

The NAACP appointed Derrick Johnson as the organization’s president and CEO.

Jasmine Shepherd was forced to share her valedictorian honor with a White student who earned a lower GPA.

This is the first case prosecuted under the federal Hate Crimes Prevention Act involving a victim targeted for gender identity.

Chokwe Antar Lumumba, 34, is a defense attorney and son of the late Mayor Chokwe Lumumba, who became mayor of Jackson in 2013, but tragically died just 8 months after taking office. The elder Lumumba was a member of the Republic of New Afrika, a social movement steeped in Black Nationalism.