Mississippi
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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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Mississippi Voters Sue Over Racist Laws that Suppress Black Candidates
With all 122 seats in the Mississippi House of Representative up for election this year, as well as a gubernatorial…
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Mississippi Must Redraw District Voting Lines, Appeals Court Rules
A federal appeals court on Friday ordered Mississippi officials to redraw district lines for a district in the Mississippi Delta,…
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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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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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Confederate President’s Name to be Replaced by Barack Obama’s at Mississippi School
The majority Black school district in Jackson, Miss., is renaming one of its schools, which is currently named after a…
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Lumumba Becomes Youngest Mayor of Jackson, Miss.
Chokwe Antar Lumumba became the youngest mayor in the history of Jackson, Miss., when he was sworn in last month…
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Black Student Forced to Share Valedictorian Status with White Student, Says Lawsuit
The Cleveland School District in Mississippi is facing a federal lawsuit filed by a black woman who claims her daughter…
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MUHAMMAD: Mississippi Poised for Another Electoral Revolution
Mississippi — despite its reputation as the dwelling place for all manner of foul birds and knuckle-dragging cavemen — is…
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MUHAMMAD: New Mississippi? New USA?
I visited my hometown in the Mississippi Delta this spring. I noticed some things I never imagined I'd see in…
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