#OnThisDay in 1915, a week before the silent film, “Birth of a Nation,” premiered at an Atlanta theater, William Simmons, along with 15 other men (including some who lynched Leo Frank) burned a cross on Stone Mountain, Georgia, signaling the rebirth of the Ku Klux Klan.

The…

#OnThisDay in 1898, editor Alexander Manly escaped a lynch mob in Wilmington, North Carolina, that ordered him killed on sight. Manly had already gained a reputation nationally for his commentary that challenged negative racial stereotypes.

Unable to kill Manly, the mob of…

NEW: Mississippi officials buried another man without his family's knowledge.

40-year-old Marrio Moore was beaten to death in Jackson in February.

Authorities buried him at the county’s penal farm in July.

His relatives found out in October. nbcnews.com/news/us-news/m…

#OnThisDay in 1961, five Black students, made up of NAACP Youth Council members and two SNCC volunteers from Albany State College, were arrested after entering the white waiting room of the Trailways station in Albany, Georgia.

The council members bonded out of jail, but the…

Did Rankin County Sheriff Bryan Bailey — already under FBI scrutiny for his department's 'Goon Squad,' which tortured two Black men and shot one of them — play a role in an ex-Capitol Police officer’s DUI acquittal? Authorities want to know.
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#OnThisDay in 1934, Ella Fitzgerald, the “Queen of Jazz,” made her debut at the Apollo Theater in Harlem. She had planned to go on stage and dance for Amateur Night, but when the Edwards Sisters danced before her, she decided to sing instead. That break led to others, and she…

#OnThisDay in 1866, 10 members of the First Congregational Society of Washington, D.C., met in the home of Deacon Henry Brewer. They decided to create a seminary to train Black clergymen. Within a year, the institution, which later became known as Howard University, embraced a…

#OnThisDay in 1919, police officer and World War I hero James Wormley Jones was appointed as the first Black special agent for what was later named the FBI.

Jones served as a captain in the 368th Infantry Regiment, 92nd Division, in command of Company F. One history book…

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U.S. Rep. Michael Guest introduced a resolution Friday morning to expel New York Congressman George Santos from Congress.

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#OnThisDay in 1871, Edward Crosby stood before a congressional hearing and swore to tell the truth. By raising his right hand, Crosby put himself and his family at risk. He could be killed for daring to tell about the terrorism he and other Black Mississippians had faced.

Days…

#OnThisDay in 1972, a law enforcement officer shot and killed two students at Southern University in Baton Rouge after weeks of protests over inadequate services.

When the students marched on University President Leon Netterville’s office, Louisiana Gov. Edwin Edwards sent…

#OnThisDay in 2017, author Jesmyn Ward became the first Black American to win the National Book Award twice.

Growing up in DeLisle, Mississippi, “I read everything,” she wrote. “Still, I still felt as if a part of me was wandering. That there was a figure in me, walking the…

#OnThisDay in 1960, federal marshals escorted 6-year-old Ruby Bridges into William Frantz Elementary School in New Orleans. Day after day, whites jeered at the Mississippi native and three other Black children, Leona Tate, Gail Etienne and Tessie Prevost, who became the first to…

Nearly every charter school saw its letter grade decline this school year, according to state test results that measure student performance.

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#OnThisDay in 1999, a jury in Belzoni, Mississippi, convicted three men of manslaughter in the April 12, 1970, killing of Rainey Pool, a 54-year-old sharecropper.

When the one-armed man, who had been drinking, happened to enter a “whites-only” bar in Midnight, Mississippi, a mob…

#OnThisDay in 1898, editor Alexander Manly escaped a lynch mob in Wilmington, North Carolina, that ordered him killed on sight. Manly had already gained a reputation nationally for his commentary that challenged negative racial stereotypes.

Unable to kill Manly, the mob of…

#OnThisDay in 1968, singer James Brown, the “Godfather of Soul,” gave movement to the civil rights movement with his song, “Say It Loud — I’m Black and I’m Proud (Part 1),” which hit number one on this day on the R&B charts for a record sixth straight week.

“Various musicians…

#OnThisDay in 1955, six months after nightriders gunned down his friend and fellow civil rights leader, the Rev. George Lee, for helping Black citizens register to vote, Gus Courts dared to lead 22 Black Mississippians to vote in a tiny Delta town, which bore the nickname,…