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 ...

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 ...

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

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 ...

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 ...

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.

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

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

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