A sharecroppers son, a Holiday Inn dishwasher, and a Mississippi State Senator - these are only a few titles 92-year-old ...

One of Mississippi’s longest-serving current state senators, who published a memoir about how education helped him move from ...

GREENWOOD - One of Mississippi's longest-serving current state senators is resigning. Mississippi Today reports Democratic ...

Last week, Mississippi Sen. Bradford Blackmon introduced ... Blackmon, a first-term senator representing a district north of Jackson, told TMZ that men are so upset about his idea that they ...

There was one other Reconstruction-era Black senator from Mississippi, Blanche Bruce. After he left the Senate in 1881, Mississippi passed laws—part of a wave of new Jim Crow laws—blocking ...

The lawsuit states that the Senate office had employed only white attorneys for at least 34 years before hiring Metcalfe, the sole Black attorney on staff during her tenure. According to the ...

The slow, steady increase in Black Mississippians being elected to public office is the direct result of actions of the ...

A three-judge federal panel has ordered the Mississippi Legislature to create more Black-majority House and Senate Districts after a lawsuit accused the legislature of diluting Black voting power.

The U.S. Department of Justice has filed a federal lawsuit accusing the Mississippi State Senate of racial discrimination against Kristie Metcalfe, a Black attorney who worked in its Legislative ...

JACKSON, Miss. (AP) — The Mississippi Senate discriminated against a Black attorney by paying her about half of what her white colleagues were paid for doing the same job, the U.S. Justice ...

The Justice Department filed a lawsuit on Friday against the Mississippi State Senate, alleging a former Black staff attorney was paid about half the salary of her white colleagues during her ...

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.