Jackson, MS () Mississippi has a long history of voter suppression. An 1890 rule that permanently strips people convicted of certain crimes of their right to ...

The Democratic National Committee will elect a new chair on Saturday as the party seeks new leadership to guide Democrats ...

Party leaders disagree sharply on how to interpret the losses that gave Republicans complete control of the federal ...

President Donald Trump has signed an executive order aiming to declassify remaining federal records relating to the assassinations of President John F. Kennedy, Sen. Robert F. Kennedy, and Martin ...

The Supreme Court on Thursday agreed to reinstate a federal anti-money laundering law at the federal government’s request as a legal challenge proceeds in a lower court. The court’s ...

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.

In the East Room of the White House on a particularly frigid Saturday ... Kennedy; former secretary of defense Ash Carter; and Fannie Lou Hamer, who founded the Mississippi Freedom Democratic Party ...

Nineteen people were honoured at a White House ceremony on Jan ... a founder of the Mississippi Freedom Democratic Party who laid the groundwork for the 1965 Voting Rights Act, and George Romney ...

WASHINGTON (AP) — In the East Room of the White House on a particularly ... who founded the Mississippi Freedom Democratic Party and laid the groundwork for the 1965 Voting Rights Act.

Actor-director Denzel Washington was among those who were awarded the United States’ highest civilian honor in a White House ... who founded the Mississippi Freedom Democratic Party and laid ...

WASHINGTON — In the East Room of the White House on a particularly ... who founded the Mississippi Freedom Democratic Party and laid the groundwork for the 1965 Voting Rights Act.

WASHINGTON -- In the East Room of the White House on a particularly ... who founded the Mississippi Freedom Democratic Party and laid the groundwork for the 1965 Voting Rights Act.