Mississippi State Sen. Willie Simmons, D-Cleveland, urged his colleagues to support a new map that would redraw State Senate District 22 to increase black voting strength. Photo by Imani Khayyam .

JACKSON, Mississippi -- A proposed new map for the Mississippi Senate includes more majority-black districts and fewer split precincts statewide. The Republican senator who led the redistricting ...

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 ...

Voters from 15 Mississippi legislative districts will decide special elections this November, if a federal court approves two redistricting maps that lawmakers approved on Wednesday.

Ten legislative districts will see contested special elections later this year thanks to a court-ordered redistricting.

A federal court has ordered Mississippi to redraw parts of its legislative map on the grounds that the current Republican-drawn one discriminates against black voters. In a 119-page decision ...

The Mississippi Senate on Wednesday made last-minute changes to a bill aimed at redistricting the state's circuit and chancery court districts, leaving some districts with fewer judges than they ...

JACKSON, Miss. (AP) — The Mississippi Senate on Wednesday is expected to approve a plan to redraw the state’s four congressional districts. The plan passed the House last week mostly along ...

The Mississippi Senate approved the House's plan for new congressional districts, ... Sen. Angela Turner-Ford, D-West Point, also unsuccessfully offered an amendment to the Republican map.

JACKSON, Miss. — Mississippi legislators diluted the power of Black voters by drawing too few majority-Black state House and Senate districts after the most recent Census, an attorn… ...

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 ...

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 ...