In 1968, he became the first Black person to serve in the Legislature since Reconstruction. Shunned by colleagues at first, ...

The first patient with COVID-19 in Mississippi was detected March 11, 2020. 8 days later, the state saw its first death. By ...

OXFORD, Miss. – This spring, the already impressive number of talented writers in Oxford will multiply as more than 20 of the ...

Democracy needs defending. This generation has a rendezvous to cross its Edmund Pettus Bridge. Let them take inspiration from ...

"They'd cut me out, and I couldn't get the floor," he told historian John Dittmer in 2013 in an oral history for the Library of ... Veteran Mississippi journalist Bill Minor, a white man who spent his ...

For years as the top-ranking federal prosecutor in Massachusetts, Edward F. Harrington targeted some of the region’s most ...

Louisiana's fourth graders ranked 50th in the country for reading. Now, they're 16th. Here's how the state, and one rural ...

More than 100 million people in the U.S. will be in the path of an intense March storm starting Friday as the sprawling multi ...

Sweepstakes casinos are the new target for New Jersey lawmakers, as a new bill goes through the house to try stomp them out.

In other Senior Center News, with uncertainty about possible federal budget cuts to Social Security and Medicaid, staff at ...

Superintendent Wayne Walters told board members Wednesday that the district needs more trained reading specialists to move ...