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

Amid ongoing focus related to jobs held by foreigners, a recent analysis provides perspective on how many jobs immigrants have in Mississippi. USAFacts defines immigrants ...

Students of color make up more than half of the school population across Connecticut, but the racial makeup of private schools in the state is largely white, according to newly published data.

Here's the breakdown of Shreveport's racial demographics. Black Americans represents the largest ethnic group in Shreveport. 56.1 percent of Shreveport is Black, 36.5 percent is white, 3.9 percent ...

Mississippi doesn't experience wildfires like the recent fires in California that scorched miles of the landscape, destroyed thousands of homes and structures and claimed dozens of lives, but they ...

The state of Mississippi left its mark on the biggest sporting event of the year. The Philadelphia Eagles steamrolled through the reigning back-to-back champion Kansas City Chiefs in Super Bowl ...

Mississippi is steeped in Black history and culture, from Civil Rights sites that spurred national change to the delta -the ...

Writing in Nature, Botelho et al. 3 demonstrate an easy change that can eliminate racial bias in performance ratings in online markets: simplify the scale. Read the paper: Scale dichotomization ...

Did you know two Mississippi universities are ranked among the best Christian colleges in the country? Niche ranks higher education organizations across the country. The site uses factors ...

Among the half-dozen medical schools in the Chicago area, it’s harder to see any trend in the change in the racial makeup of their student bodies, although none of the schools provided a racial ...