A new historical marker reminds Mississippi of one of the state’s most pivotal court cases during the Civil Rights Movement.

Mississippi’s population is about 59% white and 38% Black. In the legislative redistricting plan adopted in 2022, 15 of the 52 Senate districts and 42 of the 122 House districts are majority Black.

In a new lawsuit, the U.S. Department of Justice accused the Mississippi state Senate of severely underpaying a Black staff attorney for years. Federal officials […] ...

Mississippi has the highest percentage of Black residents of any state, now about 38%. Democratic U.S. Rep. Bennie Thompson, whose district encompasses the Delta, noted that Mississippi had no ...

In 1970, an all-White Mississippi commission voted to ban "Sesame Street," which featured a racially diverse cast. The backlash was swift, and the ban was lifted.

Mississippi’s population is about 59% white and 38% Black. In the legislative redistricting plan adopted in 2022, 15 of the 52 Senate districts and 42 of the 122 House districts are majority Black.

People in Mississippi’s majority-Black capital city say the mostly white state Legislature is trying to encroach on their rights of self-government. Republican lawmakers say they are trying t… ...

The lawsuit alleges that the Mississippi State Senate paid Kristie Metcalfe half the rate of her white co-workers. On Nov. 8, the Department of Justice announced that it was suing the Mississippi ...

In a move reminiscent of the state’s racist Jim Crow laws of the late 19th and 20th centuries, Mississippi House lawmakers recently passed a bill allowing an all-white panel of state officials ...

When it comes to Mississippi legislation, someone may think it’s still 1950. Mississippi Today reported a disturbing new bill proposed in the state’s capital of Jackson—named the “Blackest ...

Mississippi State fans might want to cancel those post-Thanksgiving shopping plans. This Black Friday, all eyes will be on Starkville for a back-to-back sports bonanza featuring two of the ...

Maati Jone Primm, owner of Marshall’s Music & Bookstore in downtown Jackson, Miss., speaks about how proposals by the majority-white Mississippi Legislature would affect governance of the state ...