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Tag: Mississippi

Posted inNational

Five U.S. States Set Records for COVID Cases Amid Delta Surge

by WI Guest Author August 17, 2021December 21, 2021

Five states set new records on the average number of daily new COVID-19 cases over the past weekend as the delta variant of the coronavirus continues to fuel outbreaks around the world.

**FILE** Phil Bryant (Tammy Anthony Baker via Wikimedia Commons)
Posted inBlack Experience, Stacy M. Brown

Outgoing Miss. Governor Says State Faces ‘1,000 Years of Darkness’ if Black Man Elected Senator

by WI Guest Author February 24, 2020December 21, 2021
Posted inBlack Experience, National

Mississippi Voters Sue Over Racist Laws that Suppress Black Candidates

by WI Guest Author June 4, 2019December 21, 2021
A voter exits after casting her ballot at a polling place at Highland Colony Baptist Church, November 27, 2018, in Ridgeland, Mississippi. Voters in Mississippi head to the polls for today's special runoff election, where Democratic candidate for U.S. Senate Mike Espy is running in a close race with appointed Republican Senator Cindy Hyde-Smith (R-MS). (Photo by Drew Angerer/Getty Images)
Posted inBlack Experience, National

Mississippi Must Redraw District Voting Lines, Appeals Court Rules

by WI Guest Author March 18, 2019October 31, 2020
Cindy Hyde-Smith
Posted inAskia Muhammad, Columnists, Op-Ed, Opinion

MUHAMMAD: My, Oh My, Oh My Mississippi

by Askia Muhammad November 20, 2018October 31, 2020
Cindy Hyde-Smith
Posted inBlack Experience, National

NAACP Calls Mississippi Candidate’s Hanging Comment ‘Sick’

by WI Guest Author November 12, 2018October 31, 2020
Barack Obama
Posted inBlack Experience, National

Confederate President’s Name to be Replaced by Barack Obama’s at Mississippi School

by WI Guest Author October 20, 2017October 31, 2020
Posted inBlack Experience, Politics

Lumumba Becomes Youngest Mayor of Jackson, Miss.

by WI Guest Author August 18, 2017October 31, 2020
Posted inBlack Experience, Education

Black Student Forced to Share Valedictorian Status with White Student, Says Lawsuit

by WI Guest Author July 6, 2017October 30, 2020
Chokwe Antar Lumumba
Posted inAskia Muhammad, Op-Ed, Opinion

MUHAMMAD: Mississippi Poised for Another Electoral Revolution

by Askia Muhammad May 10, 2017October 30, 2020

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