TUPELO, Miss. (WLBT) - Fourteen African-American leaders from across the Magnolia State have been named as Mississippi’s Most Influential African Americans for 2023-24. The list came out in ...

Alfonso Domingo, co-director of the documentary “Invisible Heroes: African ... of people of the southern United States, James Yates was working in the cotton fields in Mississippi.

Mississippi was a hostile place for African Americans in the first part of the 20th century. The rule of law was applied differently for blacks and whites. Jim Crow, the legalized segregation and ...