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Democratic presidential candidate Elizabeth Warren on Monday embraced a congressional proposal to study a framework for reparations to African-Americans hurt by the legacy of slavery as the best way to begin a “national, full-blown conversation” on the issue.

At least two Confederate groups plan to march in Oxford and near the campus of the University Of Mississippi this weekend.

CHARLOTTESVILLE, Va. – James A. Fields Jr., the man who drove into a crowd of counterprotesters at Charlottesville’s “Unite the Right” rally two years ago, killing Heather Heyer, was sentenced Friday to life in prison in his federal hate crimes case. Fields pleaded guilty to 29 federal hate crimes in March as part of an agreement that […]

An Arkansas House panel on Wednesday rejected for a second time a proposal to change the meaning of a star on the state’s flag.

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.

Two-term state Treasurer Lynn Fitch of Ridgeland and longtime Republican figure Andy Taggart of Madison are heading to a runoff in the Republican primary for Mississippi attorney general.

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

That single blue star on Arkansas’ state flag is causing quite the stir. Rep. Charles Blake, a Democrat from Little Rock, filed a bill that would change what that star stands for.

The Land Use Control Board will discuss the potential name during a meeting in April. 

OXFORD, Miss. (AP) — Eight Mississippi players kneeled during the national anthem in response to a Confederacy rally near the arena before the Rebels’ 72-71 victory over Georgia on Saturday. With the teams lined up across the court at the free throw lines, six players took a knee and bowed at the start of the […]

The 2019 BET Awards featured a number of contemporary pop and rap stars who are dominating the charts, from Cardi B to Lil Nas X. But the show belonged to artists viewed as icons in the black community, including singer Mary J. Blige, filmmaker Tyler Perry and the late rapper Nipsey Hussle.