Follow the latest coverage as President Donald Trump participates in the National Prayer Breakfast. Updates as the Senate ...

Trump has “hollowed out the rural Democratic Party,” said Kaletka. His focus looking ahead is not on winning the county back, ...

From Hattiesburg to Jackson and beyond, experience monumental Civil Rights sites along the Mississippi Freedom Trail!

Russell Vought views American politics as a life-or-death struggle between the God-fearing right and a malevolent, secular ...

The potential rebrand echoes the 2003-era rebranding of French fries as "freedom fries." The Bill A new bill would officially ...

Catch up with the latest from the Mississippi legislative session with our weekly recap from the politics team.

Woodrow Wilson became the first African American to serve in the Nevada Legislature. He went through a lot to get there.

The story of Black History Month begins in 1915. At this time, scholar Carter G. Woodson founded what today is called the ...

His Democratic-Republican Party drew much of its support from the rural South and what was then the American West — the territory stretching up the Mississippi basin to the Great Lakes.

1820—The first organized emigration of Blacks from the U.S. back to Africa occurs. Eighty-six free Blacks leave New York Harbor on a ship named the “Mayflower of Liberia.” The group lands on the West ...

Democratic National Committee Chair Ken Martin said the party was “not dead” despite the party’s loss of the White House and ...