Lawmakers are considering spending over $480 million on the Mississippi Department of Corrections for the next fiscal year, an increase of $12 million.

Inside St. James Parish, Black people’s homes are hit particularly hard by pollution. The lawsuit alleges that’s because parish officials used zoning laws in a racially discriminatory manner, ...

The Trump administration's campaign to remove National Park Service exhibits that "inappropriately disparage" historical ...

Nick Ramsden, a farmer from Pretoria, South Africa, spent a long Thursday in July driving an eighteen-wheeler along a ...

The Mississippi Blues Trail highlights the most notable sites involved in the birth, growth, and influence of blues.

Built in 1782, Destrehan Plantation is the oldest documented plantation still surviving in the Mississippi River Valley. I visited this living history museum and loved that they recognized, not only ...

On the night of June 12, 1963, Medgar Evers stepped out of his Oldsmobile parked in the driveway of his Jackson, Mississippi home, carrying t-shirts that read, 'Jim Crow Must Go.' He had returned ...

Which of the 97 films anointed as Best Picture by the Academy are, in reality, the best? And which are the worst? Almost ...

A tour of the Judge Poché Plantation House in Convent, Louisiana, and the legal legacy tied to this unusual pink River Parishes home.

On Feb 28, the US and Israel launched air strikes on Iran, killing its supreme leader and plunging the Middle East into war. With commercial vessels either barred from transit or forced to take ...

Berkley Wendell Semple DIANA McCaulay’s impressive new novel, A House for Ms Pauline (Algonquin, $29.00), is a wonderfully ...

The total value of an artist’s artworks sold at auction over a specific period. This metric reflects the artist’s overall market activity and demand in monetary terms. The middle value of all realized ...