Vice President Kamala Harris accepted the Democrats’ presidential nom-ination Thursday Aug. 22, 2024, exactly 60 years after ...
When the annual celebration of Martin Luther King, Jr., rolls around, I frequently find my mind wandering to the Mississippi ...
Ahead of the spring semester, nine students traveled to Washington, D.C., and Jackson, Mississippi, as part of a community-engaged learning trip led by the Swearer Center and in partnership with ...
The remarkable life of a fearless Mississippi sharecropper-turned-human-rights-activist. Fannie Lou Hamer's America is a portrait of a civil rights activist and the injustices in America that made ...
As Mississippi and the nation face new challenges, Bennie Thompson's legacy serves as a beacon of hope and a reminder of the ...
President Joe Biden awarded the Presidential Medal of Freedom to Civil Rights icon Fannie Lou Hamer, who is the 11th Mississippi recipient.
An in-depth interview with the family of civil and human rights activist Fannie Lou Hamer. For the family of Fannie Lou Hamer, she was a woman of power and presence as a civil and human rights ...
Mississippi Department of Archives and History and a class of students at FSU recently installed a historical marker in ...
A selection of local concerts, and museums offering free admission and special programs over the holiday weekend.