JACKSON, Miss. (AP) — Mississippi Democrats appear to have broken a Republican supermajority in the state Senate, claiming victories in two Republican-held districts that were redrawn after a court ...

Voters in Mississippi voted to approve a new state flag design. Lawmakers took action this summer to retire the former Mississippi state flag, which contained the Confederate battle emblem. The rebel ...

JACKSON, Miss. (WJTV) – Secretary of State Michael Watson (R-Miss.) announced the launch of a new elections resource “TextMyGov.” Mississippi voters may now access important election information and ...

Four metro races will be decided Tuesday by runoff elections. In the runoff to fill the State Senate District 26 seat left vacant by Jackson Mayor John Horhn, Kamesha Mumford faces Letitia Johnson.

The old civil rights worker was sure the struggle would be over by now. He’d fought so hard back in the ’60s. He’d seen the wreckage of burned churches, and the injuries of people who had been beaten.

JACKSON, Miss. — After hours of emotional debate and a vote decided by just two lawmakers, the Mississippi House has narrowly ...

A group of black voters represented by a foundation affiliated with former Attorney General Eric Holder’s National Democratic Redistricting Committee is challenging Mississippi’s Jim-Crow era laws ...

ColorLines blogger Brentin Mock checks in on Mississippi’s tough new voter ID law, which was signed on Thursday. Before stepping into the booth, voters are now required to show IDs under the law that ...