Edwidge Danticat keeps a little notebook for her two daughters, filling it with instructions and advice for them to read one day, when she’s gone.

While serving as a visiting professor at the University of Mississippi in 1962 ... Beautiful,” portrayed the same flag ...

The state of Illinois wants to re-design its flag and you can help do that.The Illinois Flag Commission is now accepting ...

The government does not violate anyone’s free speech rights merely by speaking — no matter what it chooses to say or not to say.” ...

The Illinois Flag Commission, a bipartisan body of appointed officials, will accept designs for a new state flag online or by mail through Oct. 18. More information can be found on the Illinois Flag ...

Jackson's closest national park, the Great Smoky Mountains, is about an eight and half hour drive away. But, Mississippians ...

Latinos are often portrayed as one people and newcomers with a fairly uncomplicated backstory in the region. But that couldn’t be further from the truth.

A new Civil War monument will be installed soon on the northeast corner of the Jasper County Courthouse lawn. It will offer the Union perspective on the ...

A Mississippi town has taken down a Confederate monument that stood on the courthouse square since 1910 — a figure that was ...

GRENADA, Miss. -- A Mississippi town has taken down a Confederate monument that stood on the courthouse square since 1910 — a ...

Nearly 20 years before he became president, Illinois' favorite son was facing off against then-state Auditor James Shields ...

The Mississippi town of Grenada has taken down and relocated a Confederate monument that has stood since 1910.