There were always white Mississippi Protestants who believed that racial segregation represented a flat contradiction of Jesus’s teachings of community and belonging. Men such as Will Campbell and Ed ...

President Barack Obama, born in 1961 in the newly minted state of Hawaii, proudly characterized himself as the son of a black man from Kenya and a white woman from Kansas. But such a mixed marital ...

JACKSON, Miss. – Keith Tonkel, one of 28 white United Methodist ministers who signed a statement condemning segregation and racism in the Deep South in 1963, has died. Wells United Methodist Church, ...

JACKSON, Miss. (AP) - Keith Tonkel, one of 28 white United Methodist ministers who signed a statement condemning segregation and racism in the Deep South in 1963, has died. Wells United Methodist ...

Getting your Trinity Audio player ready... Stephen Mangum was too young to understand what was going on in his small Delta town in 1960s Mississippi — the epicenter of civil rights activism and racial ...

Robert Parris Moses, a civil rights activist who was shot at and endured beatings and jail while leading Black voter registration drives in the American South during the 1960s and later helped improve ...

Armand Derfner is a lawyer who began his career in the 1960s defending activists in Mississippi. He went on to practice labor law, has argued cases before the Supreme Court and is considered a mentor ...

JACKSON, Miss. (AP) — Keith Tonkel, one of 28 white United Methodist ministers who signed a statement condemning segregation and racism in the Deep South in 1963, has died. Wells United Methodist ...

FILE - In this Nov. 14, 2013 file photo, Wells Church pastor Rev. Keith Tonkel participates in a discussion about the challenges Mississippi's capital city faces in Jackson. Tonkel, one of 28 white ...