Aug. 2, 1924 James Baldwin documentary Novelist, playwright, poet, essayist and social critic James Baldwin was born in Harlem, New York. His work explored the themes...
Aug. 1, 1974 Beverly Johnson made fashion history when she became the first Black model to appear on the American cover of Vogue magazine. When her...
Editor’s note: This article was written by Monica Land, niece of the famed civil rights leader Fannie Lou Hamer. It first published in The Enterprise-Tocsin newspaper...
There was a time, in the early-to-mid 1960s when Archie Manning thought he would probably play football, basketball and/or baseball at Sunflower Junior College (now Mississippi...
JULY 31, 1874 Credit: The Library of Congress Patrick F. Healy was inaugurated as president of Georgetown University in Washington, D.C. Healy was the first African...
Eli Manning, an All American at Ole Miss, will be inducted into the Mississippi Sports Hall of Fame Saturday night. (Photo: Ole Miss Athletics) Two-time Super...
JULY 30, 1866 Credit: Harper's Weekly, Library of Congress Black men, many of them veterans of the Civil War, were killed in New Orleans when they...
State Rep. Robert Johnson, D-Natchez, talks with Mississippi Today’s Bobby Harrison and Taylor Vance about whirlwind events surrounding the Democratic presidential nomination. Johnson is a delegate...
The opening ceremonies of the Summer Olympics are tonight in Paris, and my thoughts immediately go back to the only time I covered the Olympic Games,...
ROLLING FORK — For years, the fate of a project known as the Yazoo Pumps has bounced back and forth in a game of political ping...
