Civil and voting rights activists gathered in Jackson, Mississippi, to honor what would have been the 100th birthday of civil ...

MISSISSIPPI: More than 60 years after a white supremacist assassinated civil rights leader Medgar Evers, his daughter still ...

What we know about Poe’s death. Accounts of Poe’s last days are murky. The poet had been living in New York and was on the tail end of a long period of personal and financial struggles.