President Barack Obama, born in 1961 in the newly minted state of Hawaii, proudly characterized himself as the son of a black man from Kenya and a white woman from Kansas. But such a mixed marital ...

Getting your Trinity Audio player ready... Stephen Mangum was too young to understand what was going on in his small Delta town in 1960s Mississippi — the epicenter of civil rights activism and racial ...

Freedom Trail marker on Farish Street honors three Jackson attorneys who risked their lives fighting for civil rights and ...

JACKSON, Miss. (AP) — Keith Tonkel, one of 28 white United Methodist ministers who signed a statement condemning segregation and racism in the Deep South in 1963, has died. Wells United Methodist ...

Robert Parris Moses, a civil rights activist who was shot at and endured beatings and jail while leading Black voter registration drives in the American South during the 1960s and later helped improve ...