The bishops also voted to endorse campaign seeking sainthood for Sister Thea Bowman, Mississippi-born descendant of slaves. ..…

A secret memo from the American Expeditionary Force headquarters in August 1918 urged French officers and civil authorities not to treat African-American officers as equals (by eating with them or shaking their hands), nor to commend the troops too highly or allow “familiarity” with French women..…

That allows us to get mother from Delta of Mississippi in the room with mother from West Virginia, or to get black inner-city citizens from Louisville in the room with white coal miners and working people from Eastern Kentucky. ..…

Cindy Hyde-Smith, who joked about a local rancher in Tupelo, Mississippi, earlier this month that, “if he invited me to a public hanging, I’d be on the front row.” As Phil McCausland notes at NBC News, Mississippi had more public lynchings than any other state in the period after the..…

Marian Wright Edelman, lifelong advocate for disadvantaged Americans and the first black woman admitted to Mississippi Bar, will step away from her the role Children's Defense Fund.. ..…

It's absurd that in state that has one of the worst and mortality rates in the country, specifically — would talk about abortion being black genocide, Mississippi Reproductive Freedom Fund Executive Director Laurie Bertram-Roberts said today. #. Bryant is wingnut who was the chairman of..…

After Illinois led a Blue Fed initiative to upgrade its rail service, the Red Fed ended all cooperation with Amtrak, even adjusting gauge size along the Mississippi River to prevent passage of passenger trains from one side to another. ..…