The arson attack was not the first time that Beth Israel’s congregants were faced with the task of rebuilding. In 1967, the ...

Throughout the service, little mention was made of the suspect who confessed to the arson, Stephen Spencer Pittman, a 19-year-old resident of a suburb of Jackson who told the FBI that he had targeted ...

On Jan. 24, 1826, the Mississippi Legislature approved the charter for Hampstead Academy, now Mississippi College, in present ...

ASHLAND The guest speaker for Ashland’s annual Martin Luther King. Jr. celebration emphasized this year’s MLK theme — Mission ...

The Martin Luther King Jr. Committee began the event 38 years ago to honor people for their civil and human rights activism.

An arson attack at a synagogue in Mississippi was a reminder of the threat Jews face, but also of the strength of a small ...

How fitting it is that, in our annual cycle of Torah reading, some part of the Exodus narrative always coincides with the ...

1923 Banana Club, 223 Front St., Texarkana, Arkansas, has Michael Rhodes & The Jive Band at 8 p.m. Friday; Josh Lawrence Trio at 8 p.m. Saturday; and The Piano Man Skylar Smith at 6:30 p.m. Thursday.

(final Sunday) from noon to 2 p.m. at St. John’s Coffeehouse, 535 E. Boston St., in downtown Covington. Play numbers slowly ...

The Movement for Black Lives, a coalition of organizations affiliated with the Black Lives Matter movement, had planned its ...

Holiday marked with parades and services but tempered by anxieties over racial and social equality under Trump ...

Residents, elected officials, and community leaders gathered on Jan. 14 in Historic Overtown to celebrate the grand opening ...