Robert Clark, Mississippi's first Black lawmaker after Civil Rights era, dies at 96
Mississippi’s first Black lawmaker of the 20th century died Tuesday
Mississippi’s first Black lawmaker of the 20th century died Tuesday
Women represent half of the U.S. population
A federal appeals court has overturned a lower court ruling that found Mississippi relies too much on institutionalizing people with mental health conditions rather than providing care in their communities
Longtime Mississippi civil rights activist Hollis Watkins has died
President Joe Biden’s name isn't on the ballot in 2023
Most voters in Mississippi will have no choice this year when it comes to who represents them in the state House and Senate
Democrat Brandon Presley is trying to block Republican Gov. Tate Reeves from winning a second term in Mississippi
A civil rights attorney says he will ask the U.S. Justice Department to investigate why authorities in Jackson, Mississippi, waited months to tell a woman that her son had been struck and killed by a police SUV driven by an off-duty officer
Mississippi Republican Gov. Tate Reeves has won a second term
People in Mississippi’s largest county are demanding answers about why some polling places ran out of ballots and voters had to wait for them to be replenished on the day the state was deciding its most competitive governor’s race in a generation
Most people in Mississippi’s county jails have been held at least three months without formal charges while waiting to go on trial
Black people make up about 38% of Mississippi’s population
Constitutional rights are at the center of a legal fight over a state-run court in part of Mississippi’s majority-Black capital city of Jackson
A federal judge will allow Mississippi officials to move forward with creating a state-run court in part of the majority-Black capital city of Jackson
A new lawsuit says opening a spillway as a flood-control measure in 2019 sent polluted fresh water from the Mississippi River into the Gulf of Mexico and killed bottlenose dolphins that live in saltwater
Mississippi could start providing Medicaid coverage earlier in pregnancy in a bid to improve health outcomes for moms and babies
Republicans are challenging extended mail ballot deadlines in at least two states in a move that could have severe implications for mail voting nationwide ahead of this year’s presidential election
Author Ellen Gilchrist has died at age 88
Mississippi’s Republican attorney general is suing the Republican state auditor, trying to block the auditor’s effort to recover misspent welfare money from retired NFL quarterback Brett Favre
A Civil War battlefield in Mississippi is providing more information about Black history
The Republican senator who gave the party’s response to President Joe Biden’s State of the Union address used a harrowing account of a young woman’s sexual abuse to attack his border policies, but the rapes did not happen in the U.S. or during the Biden administration
Mississippians have voted in party primaries for four seats in the U.S. House and one in the Senate
Mississippi Republican Gov. Tate Reeves has signed a new law that will allow women to receive Medicaid coverage earlier in pregnancy
A former Mississippi police officer has pleaded guilty to a federal civil rights charge after authorities say he forced a man to lick his own urine off the floor of a jail cell
Sentencing continues Wednesday for white former law enforcement officers in Mississippi who pleaded guilty last year to breaking into a home without a warrant and torturing two Black men with a stun gun, a sex toy and other objects
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