Medgar Wiley Evers was born on July 2, 1925. He was assassinated June 12, 1963 outside his home in Jackson, three weeks ...

JACKSON, Miss. (AP) — More than 60 years after a white supremacist assassinated civil rights leader Medgar Evers, his ...

No right is safe in the new legal regime the Court creates,” Justice Sonia Sotomayor wrote in her dissent, which was joined ...

For most citizens, the release of Supreme Court opinions is about as exciting as watching paint dry, particularly in a case ...

Was the Supreme Court's decision in the birthright citizenship case a proper curb on judicial overreach, or a step toward the ...

Group gathered in downtown Jackson, protesting immigration and deportation policies as part of the nationwide "Disappeared in America" day of protest.

Supreme Court Justice Ketanji Brown Jackson on Thursday strongly criticized President Donald Trump — without naming him — for his attacks on judges, arguing that the rhetoric of the president ...

Andrew Jackson was born 250 years ago this March 15. For much of that quarter-millennium, ... Jacksonian democracy was far from perfect: Most women and African-Americans couldn’t vote.

Jackson County voters collected 42,900 signatures in favor of recalling county executive Frank White, which could be enough ...