The school district didn't oppose the order. At the time, the district's roughly 2,500 students had a racial makeup of 64 percent African-American and 35 percent white.

An attorney is warning DeSoto County families about a problem that he says is happening within the juvenile system.

ProPublica identified 20 schools in Mississippi that likely opened as segregation academies and have received almost $10 million over the past six years from the state’s tax credit donation program.

The National Civ i l Rights Museum will hold a symposium on Freedom Summer July 27 in Memphis. In June, veterans hosted a two-day conference in Indianola, Mississippi. To go deeper: Freedom Summer ...

Nakala Murry (shown right) could potentially lose custody of her three kids after a Mississippi police officer shot and wounded her son, 11-year-old Aderrien Murry (shown left) in May 2023 after ...

Whether it’s paying a visit to our Civil Rights Museum, taking a drive to Cleveland or Indianola to see the Mississippi Grammy or B.B. King museums, or even something as simple as streaming a film ...

The family of an 11-year-old boy in Indianola, Mississippi, who was shot by a police officer after he called 911 for help is suing the city, the police chief and the officer accused of the ...

In the early morning hours on May 20, an unarmed and harmless 11-year-old boy was shot in his Mississippi home by a police officer. Police arrived at the residence of Nakala Murry in Indianola ...

A Mississippi police officer shot and wounded an unarmed 11-year-old boy while responding to a domestic disturbance at his family's home.Aderrien Murry was shot in the chest by an Indianola police ...

Volunteers with the Mississippi Rapid Response Coalition distribute drinking water in Jackson, Miss., on Aug. 30. (Chris Todd, EPA-EFE/Shutterstock) If you want to understand today’s GOP ...

Despite decades of strife and struggle, residents in the Mississippi Delta haven't stopped pushing for change.

A U.S. judge on Tuesday ordered a rural Mississippi school district to comply with a nearly 40-year-old order and halt long-disputed practices that led to racial segregation in its schools.