Mississippi honors those who fought for the Confederacy against the United States in the Civil War. Who tried to drop the state holiday?

The U.S. is set to mark Martin Luther King Jr. Day, the federal holiday set aside to honor the life of the civil rights icon. But in Alabama and Mississippi, Monday is also Robert E. Lee Day in ...

National intelligence director Tulsi Gabbard said more than 100 people have been working "around the clock" to scan the ...

By The Associated Press Today is Wednesday, April 9, the 99th day of 2025. There are 266 days left in the year. Today in ...

Gov. Kay Ivey has treated Juneteenth as a state holiday for the past several years in alignment with the federal holiday.

Arkansas has a Robert E. Lee Day on the second Saturday in October, along with Davis' birthday. After Martin Luther King, Jr.'s birthday became a federal holiday in 1983, several states combined ...

Educators are seeking a way to introduce Christian IR into their classes to focus on the faith’s impact in shaping liberal ...

1682 – Robert La Salle claimed the lower Mississippi River and all lands that touch it for France. 1770 – Captain James Cook discovered Botany Bay on the Australian continent. 1833 – Peterborough, NH, ...

a young minister asked the day I was there ... that might bring federal intervention on a large scale. When Martin Luther King visited the state recently in support of the Freedom Democratic ...

“He was crucified for us!” an elderly African American from York, Pennsylvania, told a newspaper that Easter weekend.