Is this Mississippi seeing the light? A three-judge federal panel has ordered the Mississippi Legislature to create more Black-majority House and Senate Districts after a lawsuit accused the ...

A federal court has ordered the state of Mississippi to redraw its 2022 state legislative maps because it dilutes the voting strength of Black Mississippians. The panel of three judges ruled that ...

Three federal judges are telling Mississippi to redraw some of its legislative districts, saying the current ones dilute the power of Black voters in three parts of the state. The judges issued their ...

Mississippi has a growing Black population, which is already the largest Black population percentage of any state in the country. Yet. Black Mississippians continue to be significantly ...

The Mississippi Senate passed a bill for the second consecutive year aiming to transfer control of Jackson's water system to a regional board. Republican Sen. David Parker introduced a modified ...

Mississippi leadership is arguing that legislative district boundaries currently violating federal voting laws should remain in place for another year. The Mississippi State Board of Election ...

The Mississippi House of Representatives, at the State Capitol in Jackson. Yahoo is using AI to generate takeaways from this article. This means the info may not always match what's in the article.

The Mississippi Legislature is not a public body and not subject to the state’s Open Meetings Act, a Hinds County Chancery Court judge ruled Tuesday, affirming a 2023 Mississippi Ethics Commission ...

FILE - Mississippi state Sens. Rod Hickman, D-Macon, left, Michael McLendon, R-Hernando, second from left, Albert Butler, D-Port Gibson, and David Jordan, D-Greenwood, review an alternate Senate ...