A charity working to end human trafficking and modern-day slavery will receive £75,000 over three years. Anti-Slavery Initiative Oxford has been awarded the funding by the Lloyds Bank Foundation for ...

The artwork of Louis B. Burroughs Jr., a prolific African-American artist who lives in Orange, was the focus of the opening event of the village’s inaugural Juneteenth celebration Thursday (June 19) ...

I think Juneteenth is an even more quintessentially American holiday than the Fourth of July,” explains Professor Shennette Garrett-Scott.

We're headed south to the Gulf Coast, like so many other Arkansans this time of year. My wife must have her coffee fix, and there aren't a lot of choices after leaving Lake Village, regardless of ...

Labor and civil rights leader A. Phillip Randolph initially rejects a plea by President Franklin D. Roosevelt to call off the ...

Angelo Correr renounces his claim to the Papacy as Pope Gregory XII. 1610: Sigmund III’s Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth army defeats ...

Travel + Leisure named a Mississippi college town one of the best in the U.S. Find great food, books, shopping, more in this ...

Democrats plan to celebrate America’s birthday with mass nationwide protests and marches Every year on July 4, citizens of ...

OXFORD, Miss. - The next time Timothy Herrington stands trial for the murder of Ole Miss student Jimmie "Jay" Lee, it won't be in Oxford, Mississippi. A judge granted a change of venue request ...

MEMPHIS, Tenn. — The first Raising Cane’s in the Mid-South area is having its grand opening on Tuesday in Southaven, Mississippi. The Southaven restaurant will be hosting its grand open… ...