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Jesse Jackson's life and activism reflect the ongoing impact of Southern politics on American elections. His story is a testament to the enduring power of the civil rights movement.

Israeli airstrikes kill more than 400 Palestinians across Gaza, “ending weeks of relative calm after talks to secure a permanent ceasefire stalled. Israel and Palestinian militant group Hamas each ...

Before 1619, enslaved landed in Florida. In 1738, their descendants founded the country’s first free Black settlement, Fort ...

Globally, black soil regions cover approximately 725 million hectares, about 7% of the earth’s ice-free land surface. These regions are found in the Russia-Ukraine Great Plain (1.9 million square ...

The 'Black Belt' region in the Southern United States is significant historically, geologically, and socio-politically. Known ...

Nineteen 1890 land grant colleges, all Historically Black Colleges and Universities ... FDA recall: 2 popular coffee creamers ...

MOBILE, Ala. (WKRG) — Baker High School guard Desmond Williams is the lone player from the Gulf Coast selected to compete in Saturday’s Alabama-Mississippi All-Star Basketball Classic.

This happened with alarming frequency and left me with many visions of Black people bleeding to death on the black tarmac of highways in Alabama, Mississippi ... As he turned over the soil in his ...

LEXINGTON, Miss. (AP) — Robert G. Clark, who was elected in 1967 as Mississippi’s first black lawmaker of the 20th century and rose to the second-highest leadership role in the state House of ...

LEXINGTON, Miss. (AP) — Robert G. Clark, who was elected in 1967 as Mississippi's first Black lawmaker of the 20th century and rose to the second-highest leadership role in the state House of ...