JACKSON, Miss. (AP) — Mississippi is on the verge of scuttling a state song with racist roots, two years after it retired a Confederate-themed state flag. The current song, “Go, Mississippi ...

Mississippi is doing away with a state song that traces its origins to a politician who pledged to preserve racial segregation. “Go, Mississippi” has the same tune – but not lyrics – of a ...

The FADER's monthly column Pop Factory interviews the songwriters, producers, and other visionaries behind pop's biggest songs. When Leland ... Growing up in South Mississippi, he studied music ...

Blackmon looks back at how school integration transformed his hometown of Leland, Mississippi. After the 1954 Supreme Court ruled that racial segregation in public schools was unconstitutional ...

JACKSON, Miss. (AP) — Mississippi is ditching a state song that’s based on the campaign tune of a former governor who pledged to preserve segregation. The current governor, Republican Tate ...

As a closeted boy in Ocean Springs, Mississippi, Leland wasn’t exposed to many ... where his notion of writing songs for Beyoncé didn’t quite pan out, but his career flourished.