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A Virginia state senator has been charged with two felonies for actions at a Confederate monument that was destroyed on June 10 in the city of Portsmouth.

Check out all the Live at 9 interviews from Tuesday, October 1, 2019.

The city of Memphis and Shelby County honored one of the greatest living civil rights leaders Monday by naming a downtown building after James Meredith.

There are several uncontested races on the ballot for the August 6th Primary in Mississippi

A University of Mississippi sociology professor criticized for encouraging “acts of aggression” against Republican politicians was granted tenure by a divided College Board on Thursday.

But there are some students who say the statue should be left alone. 

A civil rights lawyer forced from a teaching post at the University of Mississippi in one of the last spasms of segregationist control at that Southern university in the 1960s has died.

WREG has compiled the following list of uncontested races in our viewing area. Tennessee races are on the first page. Follow the links for Mississippi and Arkansas. TENNESSEE Tennessee General Assembly SENATE DISTRICT 33: Katrina Robinson (D) HOUSE DISTRICT 77: Bill Sanderson (R) (inc.) HOUSE DISTRICT 80: Johnny Shaw (D) (inc.) HOUSE DISTRICT 81: Debra Moody (R) […]

Some professors say the university should rename its journalism school for an African-American journalist who crusaded against lynching.

James Meredith of Jackson is one of five people being inducted into the Ole Miss alumni hall of fame during homecoming in October.

Together, over the next few days, the four helped The Associated Press inform the world about the stunning news that the Rev. Martin Luther King Jr. had been assassinated in Memphis, Tennessee.