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For a state of fewer than three million, the artistic talent coming from Mississippi is truly staggering. Consider our

Each week in 2017,

On October 1, 1962, James Meredith became the first African American to enroll at the University of Mississippi. Segregationists ...

Each week in 2017,

After six weeks of bombardment and

In February of 1934, Tupelo became the first city to purchase electrical power from the new Tennessee Valley Authority, the ...

On May 4, 1961, young black and white activists left Washington, D.C. to travel by bus into the South. Along the way, these ...

On December 10, 1817 – two hundred years ago this week – Mississippi became the 20th state in the Union. Former territorial ...

This week, we learn about three Mississippian Astronauts: Fred Haise of Biloxi, Richard Truly of Fayette, and Donald Peterson of ...

In 1900 the Mississippi Legislature decided a new capitol building was needed. Learn more at http://www.mpbonline.org.

Born this week in 1808, he was a West Point graduate, a cotton planter, a member of the U.S. House and Senate. He was a hero ...

If you ask a Mississippian about the historic Natchez Trace, you might hear tales of highwaymen robbing travelers

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Prohibition in the United States ended in 1933, but that wasn't the case in Mississippi. Our State didn't repeal it until 1966.

It's Christmas, when many children will find teddy bears waiting under the tree. But if President Theodore –Teddy- Roosevelt had ...

Each week in 2017,

Each week in 2017,

Damien Blaylock is an independent documentary film maker living and working in Jackson. William Goodman is a mixed media ...

In August 1969, Hurricane Camille struck the Mississippi Gulf Coast

Located in Rankin County, the Piney Woods Country Life School is the largest, independent, African-American boarding school in ...