Afghan scholar Mohammad Halimi, who fled the Taliban in 2021, had worked to help U.S. diplomats understand his homeland. Then DOGE put his family’s lives at risk by exposing his sensitive work for a U.S.-funded nonprofit.

For Memphis-born, Mississippi-bred musician Kirby Lauryen Dockery, the last decade has seen her songs and determination bring her to an exalted place in the music business. www.clarionledger.com/story/entert...

They’ve tried to erase us for centuries. Didn’t work then, won’t work now. Black history IS American history.

Federal judge rules Mississippi Supreme Court districts dilute Black vote, must be redrawn No Black person has ever been elected to the Mississippi Supreme Court without first obtaining an interim appointment from the governor, and no Black person from either of the two other districts has ever…

Federal judge blocks Mississippi’s DEI ban law indefinitely U.S. District Judge Henry T. Wingate granted a preliminary injunction in the case on Monday, which prevents the law from being enforced until there’s a final ruling.

Democratic state Rep. Nicole Collier from Fort Worth returned to the Texas Capitol on Monday but says she remains locked inside the Capitol because she wouldn't sign a permission slip to be under escort by the Texas Department of Public Safety.

Gov. Tates Reeves has approved the deployment of hundreds of Mississippi National Guard members to Washington, D.C., in support of the President Donald J. Trump administration.

After eight years largely out of work, getting the role of the arch-villain General Zod opposite Christopher Reeve in "Superman" and "Superman II" turned the full glare of Hollywood's limelight on the Londoner.

"This 'Marxist MAGA' movement keeps expanding more and more, taking control without the resistance of private-sector decision-making," a Yale University management professor said. "So that means we have winners and losers based on cronyism."

Danielle Spencer, the actress who played the lovably bratty and witty teenager on the 1970s hit sitcom “What’s Happening!!” and its spinoff, “What’s Happening Now!!,” before spending much of her adult life as a veterinarian, died on Monday.

Over the course of the 20th century, Black Americans lost roughly 80% of the property they owned at the peak of ownership a few decades after the Civil War due to theft and systemic injustices.

New Orleans took the brunt of the 2005 storm which swept in from the Gulf of Mexico and killed more than 1,800 people.

"We can’t lose focus on what matters – right now, Republicans in Texas are trying to gerrymander district lines to unfairly win five seats in next year’s midterm elections," Obama said.

The surge in unemployment among Black Americans could be a troubling sign for the economy, since this segment is often the first hit by economic downturns.

The settlement marks a victory for town officials who had argued the state was treating Mason's majority-Black leaders differently than they have white administrators who also struggled with finances.

Demcorats slammed Bessent's comments. "Trump White House openly admits their plan to privatize Social Security," U.S. Rep. Brendan Boyle, D-Pennsylvania, said in a post on X. "I will fight them with everything I got to keep their grubby little hands off it."

U.S. District Judge Henry T. Wingate issued a temporary restraining order on July 20 that paused the enforcement of a state law that prohibits diversity, equity and inclusion programs in public schools. But the order was riddled with mistakes.

President Donald Trump said he won't fire Jerome Powell following a clash at the Federal Reserve that saw the Fed chair correct the president.

Malcolm-Jamal Warner’s role as the lovable son of the Huxtables made him a household name in the 1980s.

A Republican congressman blasted Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth’s push to resurrect banned Confederate base names via proxy as “stupid as hell” in an interview with USA TODAY.

Democrats stormed out of a Senate committee meeting as Republicans voted to advance Emil Bove, Trump's former personal lawyer, for a lifetime federal appeals court seat.

It is unclear whether moves targeting the former F.B.I. director James B. Comey and the former C.I.A. director John O. Brennan will lead to charges.

Mississippi Mass Choir’s ‘Mama’ Mosie Burks funeral set

Mississippi Mass Choir legendary soloist Mosie Burks dies

"Nip/Tuck" and "Fantastic Four" star Julian McMahon has died at 56 from cancer.

House Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries, stymied with legislative options to block Trump's signature bill took his efforts to the court of public opinion, seizing the microphone on the House floor in a record-breaking marathon speech.

The protest is designed to support immigrants in the U.S. and make a statement against recent actions by U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement.

Emil Bove III, a Trump judicial nominee, voiced his intent to disobey court orders as others stonewalled and misled judges, according to a complaint.

Israel has not yet confirmed the cease-fire, and within three hours of Mr. Trump’s announcement, there were fresh attacks from Israel against Iran, raising questions about whether all parties had agreed to it.

Jackson's dissent in a case about air pollution rules came two weeks after she said the court may be unintentionally showing preferential treatment for the Trump administration.

MSNBC’s Lawrence O’Donnell explains how Donald Trump’s “cognitive confusion” about whether he can appoint himself chair of the Federal Reserve, among other “stupid and demented” comments, is proving the psychiatrists who predicted his mental acuity would get worse right.

The Jackson City Council passed a resolution urging the U.S. Navy and Department of Defense to reverse their decision to remove civil rights icon Medgar Evers' name from the USNS Medgar Evers — a move made following pleas from Evers’ own family.

Law enforcement officials identified the suspect as Vance Luther Boelter, 57.

Authorities say a Minnesota lawmaker and her husband were killed and another lawmaker and his wife were injured at their homes by a person impersonating law enforcement in what Gov. Tim Walz called a “politically motivated assassination.”

Federal agents forcibly removed Sen. Alex Padilla from a press conference, forced him to the ground and handcuffed the California Democrat after he interrupted an event for Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem.

“Renaming the USNS Medgar Evers is not only malicious — it is despicable,” said Evers’ daughter, Reena Evers-Everette.

Hours after President John Kennedy told the nation that the grandchildren of those enslaved are “not yet freed from the bonds of injustice,” NAACP leader Medgar Evers was assassinated outside his home in Jackson, Miss.

Is the level of attention on TikTok sensation LaR’iyah excessive for a 4-year-old?

Sly Stone, a onetime San Francisco deejay turned pop and funk music innovator, has died at 82.

The best American women's tennis player since Serena Williams just didn't realize the trophy she grew up seeing on television isn't the one the winner gets.

“One of the things that I'm proudest of in this book is that, for the first time, the migration stories of the African Americans who came to Seabrook Farms from the Deep South, from the Jim Crow South, has been told.”

“At a time when people are understandably focused on the daily chaos in Washington, these articles describe the rapidly accelerating impact that AI is going to have on jobs, the economy, and how we live,” Obama wrote.

Bill Clinton said his 'only concern' about President Biden was whether he could have served a second term until he was 86 years old.

Alan Alda has paid respects to his "supremely talented" "M*A*S*H" co-star Loretta Swit, who died May 30 at age 87.

A federal court ruled President Donald Trump can't use an emergency-powers law to impose tariffs on foreign countries, dealing a blow to his trade agenda.

In 2020, millions watched in horror as former Minneapolis police officer Derek Chauvin pinned Floyd beneath his knee for 9 minutes and 29 seconds.

"This condition has been exacerbated by recent concert performances, leading to problems with hearing, vision, and balance.”

Beloved actor George Wendt, best known for his role as beer-quaffing bar regular Norm Peterson on the NBC hit comedy "Cheers," has died.

A spokesperson for former President Joe Biden announced in a statement Sunday, May 18 that the former president has been diagnosed with an aggressive form of prostate cancer.

Trump’s aggressive approach to immigration has put the administration on a collision course with the courts.