Black History Month celebrates towering figures like Dr. Martin Luther King Jr., Malcolm X and Rosa Parks— rightfully so, as ...

Shutterstock Walking the Mississippi Civil Rights Trail Mississippi was one of the epicenters of the civil rights struggle in ...

Community members gathered for a screening of “Fannie Lou Hamer’s America” followed by a panel discussion as part of the MSU ...

From Hattiesburg to Jackson and beyond, experience monumental Civil Rights sites along the Mississippi Freedom Trail!

Strib Voices publishes a mix of material from 11 contributing columnists, along with other commentary online and in print ...

Perry says it's no coincidence that King wore blue on her wedding day, and that civil rights activist Fannie Lou Hamer wore a blue dress to testify before Congress in 1964. "When I see the repetition ...

Martin Luther King Jr. had a deep respect for music as an instrument ... His "We Shall Overcome" is in many ways the ...

Martin Luther King Jr. had a deep respect for music as ... His "We Shall Overcome" is in many ways the definitive version. 14. Fannie Lou Hamer, 'Go Tell It on the Mountain' (1963) The original ...