Lil Armstrong was born Lillian Beatrice Hardin on February 3, 1898. Her grandmother, Priscilla Thompson, was born into slavery in 1850 in Lafayette County near Oxford, Mississippi. Her parents ...

Oxford, Mississippi, secured the No. 2 spot for Best Small College Town in the USA TODAY 10Best Readers’ Choice Awards.  The ...

The Oxford Police Department and Chief Jeff McCutchen were presented the Outstanding Service to Crime Victims Award Tuesday ...

JACKSON, Miss. (WTVA) — USA Today recognized Starkville and Oxford as some of the best small towns in the country. The ...

After the Civil War, those torn from loved ones and family members by slaveowners placed newspaper ads in the hope of reunion ...

A group of powerful anti-slavery advocates issued a warning Tuesday, declaring that “millions of lives are at risk” unless urgent, coordinated international action is taken to eliminate modern ...

NAMI Oxford, the local affiliate of the National Alliance on Mental Illness, is inviting the public to a free community mental health workshop on April 24 at 4 p.m. at the Oxford-Lafayette County ...

Oliphant, an East Central Community College student, stated that she is committed to improving childhood reading in ...

Hundreds of protesters gathered at the Mississippi State Capitol Building on Saturday, April 5, to oppose the actions of President Donald J. Trump's administration and Elon Musk's involvement in ...

Prof. Andrew Thompson, a leading expert in global and imperial history in the Faculty of History at Oxford University, has presented a new Framework of Analysis for Modern Slavery & Human Trafficking ...