Every year, residents and officials alike gather at Gum Tree Park to celebrate the day the last slaves were notified of their emancipation following the American Civil War. Tupelo will host its annual ...

A high school state champion multiple times over, Brown won the annual Gum Tree 10K on Saturday morning in Tupelo. He hit the finish line in 32 minutes, 42 seconds, a full half-minute ahead of ...

The tree honors Erie's ecological past while also acknowledging the challenges we could face in the future. The Black Gum Tupelo is heat tolerant, adapts better to a warming climate than other native ...

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. Sughnen Yongo is a Midwest writer covering Black women, pop culture. America has always been shaped by Black resistance ...

Multiple Florida State University students shared stories of waiting in cubby spaces and running from the scene of the school's April 17 mass shooting Florida State University students are ...

Months later, she receives a handwritten reply from Presley, outlining his own hardscrabble childhood in Tupelo, where his family lived either close to or actually in the Black section of town ...

Ninth graders at Tupelo High School are enrolled in the Freshman Academy to explore career options before they choose a focus sophomore year. Tupelo High School in Mississippi is kickstarting the ...

If you were going to post a Mannequin Challenge video, that video had to be set to the chiming, hypnotic strains of Rae Sremmurd’s “Black Beatles” intro. If your Mannequin Challenge video ...

This October 2006 image provided by The Morton Arboretum shows the leaves of a black gum, aka black tupelo (Nyssa sylvatica) tree, displaying fall hues of red, orange, yellow and maroon at the ...

TUPELO — Surrounded by photos of those experiencing homelessness in a Gum Tree Museum of Art exhibit ... held in conjunction with a photo exhibit at the museum — "Homeless in Black and White" by local ...

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