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Mississippi residents’ lives in 2019 were disrupted by a large-scale immigration raid and prolonged flooding in the Delta. People mourned the deaths of two longtime elected officials, and voters chose a new governor.

A spokesman with Sons of Confederate Veterans said Tuesday the group now has possession of two Confederate statues removed from Memphis parks in December 2017.

The University of Mississippi’s proposal to move a Confederate soldier monument from a central spot on the Oxford campus to a Confederate cemetery was approved Friday by state trustees of the Mississippi Department of Archives and History.

A commission behind a memorial for teenage lynching victim Emmett Till in Mississippi was forced to get a new sign with a glass bulletproof front and add cameras and alarms after previous markers were riddled with bullet holes. It’s one of numerous monuments to U.S. civil rights figures or events around the country that have […]

People carrying a white nationalist flag were caught on security cameras trying to film in front of a new memorial to lynching victim Emmett Till.

Topics: Tennessee Supreme Court dismisses appeal over Confederate statue removal Raymond James moving out of downtown Residency rules for Memphis police, fire Guests: Van Turner Frank Colvett Jr.

MEMPHIS, Tenn. — After years of debate and lawsuits, the Tennessee Supreme Court has seemingly turned the page on the Confederate statues that used to be on display in Memphis. It’s been almost two years since the statues of Nathan Bedford Forrest and Jefferson Davis came down, and now city leaders are hoping this state […]

MEMPHIS, Tenn. (AP) — The Tennessee Supreme Court will not consider an appeal related to Memphis’ removal of statues of Confederate leaders Nathan Bedford Forrest and Jefferson Davis from two parks. City officials circumvented a state law limiting the removal of historical memorials from public property by selling the parks to a private nonprofit. Davidson […]

(CNN) — Montgomery County Probate Judge Steven Reed has reportedly won the mayoral run-off election and will become the first black mayor of Montgomery, Alabama, since the city was founded in 1819. Local media has called the election for Reed, who overwhelmingly defeated television station owner David Woods by more than 16,000 votes. The vote […]

An official with firsthand knowledge of the decision told The Associated Press that former state Higher Education Commissioner Glenn Boyce will be the next chancellor of the University of Mississippi.

Lee said Thursday he expects the state panel to address the contentious bust of Confederate General Nathan Bedford Forrest.