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.

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.

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’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.

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 ...

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 ...

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 to ...

The NAACP argues there are too few majority-Black state House and Senate districts in Mississippi. The state disagrees. JACKSON, Miss. […] The post Mississippi lawyers argue whether legislative ...

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 ...