by LaKisha | Feb 7, 2020 | Black History
Medgar Evers was an American civil rights activist in Mississippi, the state’s field secretary for the NAACP, and a World War II veteran who had served in the United States Army. He worked to overturn segregation at the University of Mississippi, end the...
by LaKisha | Feb 9, 2019 | Black History
We know him at the booming voice of Mufasa in the Lion King or Star War’s Darth Vader, but James Earl Jones didn’t always speak this way. Born in rural Mississipi in 1931, he had a rough start on life. His father left the family to become a prizefighter...
