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On this day in 1956, a bus boycott began in Tallahassee after two Florida A&M students refused to give up their seats to white passengers.
White is from rural Holmes County, one of the poorest areas of the country on the edge of the Mississippi Delta.
Mississippi high schools keep producing top shelf talent, which is why the state's college baseball teams are so successful year after year.
On this day in 1774, Black residents in the Massachusetts Bay colony, detained as slaves, declared in a petition that they were born free.
Jailed nearly two years charged with a capital murder he didn't commit, Desmond Green wants the "rogue" detective who put him there held accountable.
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Fears over the country’s Southern border and disappointment with national immigration policy have also led to rampant misinformation about immigration law.
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In this episode of Mississippi Stories, Mississippi Today Editor-at-Large Marshall Ramsey sits down with musician Scott Albert Johnson.
The gap between the national average and Mississippi’s eighth-grade reading score hasn’t closed at the rate of fourth-grade reading.
On this day in 1961, civil rights leaders announced that, despite the attack days earlier by a white mob, the Freedom Rides would continue.