Vice President Kamala Harris accepted the Democrats’ presidential nom-ination Thursday Aug. 22, 2024, exactly 60 years after ...

When the annual celebration of Martin Luther King, Jr., rolls around, I frequently find my mind wandering to the Mississippi ...

Ahead of the spring semester, nine students traveled to Washington, D.C., and Jackson, Mississippi, as part of a community-engaged learning trip led by the Swearer Center and in partnership with ...

As Mississippi and the nation face new challenges, Bennie Thompson's legacy serves as a beacon of hope and a reminder of the ...

The remarkable life of a fearless Mississippi sharecropper-turned-human-rights-activist. Fannie Lou Hamer's America is a portrait of a civil rights activist and the injustices in America that made ...

President Joe Biden awarded the Presidential Medal of Freedom to Civil Rights icon Fannie Lou Hamer, who is the 11th Mississippi recipient.

An in-depth interview with the family of civil and human rights activist Fannie Lou Hamer. For the family of Fannie Lou Hamer, she was a woman of power and presence as a civil and human rights ...

Mississippi Department of Archives and History and a class of students at FSU recently installed a historical marker in ...

A selection of local concerts, and museums offering free admission and special programs over the holiday weekend.

On Saturday, President Joe Biden awarded the Presidential Medal of Freedom to 19 recipients, including a posthumous award to Mississippi Civil Rights icon Fannie Lou Hamer who died in 1977.

For the second consecutive time, the Mississippi Civil Rights Museum in Jackson has been nominated for the best history ...