Mike Espy
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Outgoing Miss. Governor Says State Faces ‘1,000 Years of Darkness’ if Black Man Elected Senator
Fifty-two years after the assassination of Dr. Martin Luther King Jr., and 55 years after Jim Crow, Mississippi is burning…
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WILLIAMS: The Devastation of Voter Suppression
Many of those affected by voter suppression need our support most. It's a characteristic of the so-called American democratic system…
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Hyde-Smith Beats Espy in Miss. Runoff Election for Senate
Mississippi Republican Sen. Cindy Hyde-Smith defeated Democratic challenger Mike Espy in the state's runoff Senate election Tuesday night.
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MLB Requests Return of Campaign Funds from Cindy Hyde-Smith
Major League Baseball has requested a return of a $5,000 donation to Cindy Hyde-Smith, the Mississippi Republican candidate for U.S.…
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Mississippi Campaign Heats Up After ‘Public Hanging’ Remark
It’s a campaign that flew quietly under the radar – though the outcome could not only make history but change…
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MUHAMMAD: My, Oh My, Oh My Mississippi
Mississippi is the state where the most lynchings took place in U.S. history. Now, President Donald J. Trump is on…
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Miss. Senate Race May Be Defining Moment for Black Voters
Mississippi Sen. Cindy Hyde-Smith’s remark to a colleague that “If he invited me to a public hanging, I’d be on…
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NAACP Calls Mississippi Candidate’s Hanging Comment ‘Sick’
The NAACP has blasted Mississippi Sen. Cindy Hyde-Smith, who is under fire for a joke she made about being invited…
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Espy’s Path to the U.S. Senate Includes Black, White and ‘Purple People’
Mike Espy, the first African-American elected to the U.S. House of Representatives from Mississippi since Reconstruction, a former U.S. secretary…
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