Charles Cobb Jr. played an integral role in getting Black people registered to vote during the Mississippi Freedom Summer ...

The House Constitution chairman said Thursday he was no longer going to bring up disenfranchisement or ballot initiatives on ...

The Mississippi House has approved a resolution that would allow five seats in the chamber to be re-decided in a November special election to comply with a federal court order.

A push for campaign finance and election reforms in the Mississippi Senate and House have passed through the first of many ...

Mississippi has one of the harshest disenfranchisement systems in the nation and a convoluted way for restoring voting rights to people. Other than receiving a pardon from the governor, the only way ...

Civil rights champions have diverse college journeys. Rev. Martin Luther King Jr. may be the most recognized civil rights leader in U.S. history, but across many decades, numerous Black activists ...

Proponents of spending public funds on private schools are not proponents of letting the people vote on the issue. Their fear ...

Hattiesburg could possibly get a new legislator once Mississippi lawmakers redraw district lines after a federal court ...

The Supreme Court has left in place Mississippi's Jim Crow-era practice of removing voting rights from people convicted of certain felonies, including nonviolent crimes such as forgery and timber ...

The Mississippi ACLU has accused state lawmakers of not being transparent when it comes to new legislative redistricting maps ...

Mississippi is one of eleven states that don’t automatically restore voting rights after convicted felons finish their sentences. Voting rights experts say Mississippi’s restrictions are among the ...