The U.S. is marking Martin Luther King 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 honor of ...

Mississippi celebrates the birthday of Confederate President Jefferson Davis on Memorial Day. Here's what to know about the ...

PASCAGOULA, Miss. (WKRG) — Jackson-George Regional Library officials have announced that all of their locations will be closed on Jan. 20 in honor of Martin Luther King Jr. Day. A JGRL news ...

Martin Luther King Jr. Day is always scheduled to take place ... When the federal holiday was adopted in the 1980s, Mississippi and Alabama lawmakers opted to add it to an existing holiday ...

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

To people who happen to be admirers of Spanish Civil War literature, Jackson as the headquarters of the Mississippi ... Luther King as “the Rev. Dr. Extremist Agitator Martin Luther King, Jr ...

Martin Luther King Jr.'s legacy is celebrated each year in ... located in Memphis just blocks away from Tommy Lee Park and the Mississippi River. The motel is now home to the National Civil ...

As we pay tribute to his life and legacy on Martin Luther King Jr. Day — observed on the third Monday of January in recognition of his birthday on Jan. 15, 1929 — we revisit some of his most ...

Investigators in Tennessee say a fire that severely damaged a historic Black church that served as the headquarters for a ...