People in Mississippi’s majority-Black capital city say the mostly white state Legislature is trying to encroach on their rights of self-government.

Republican-controlled state legislature votes to create a new court system, which would be appointed by all-white officials in Jackson, MS. Protesters opposed to changing the state flag gather ...

Mississippi’s capital city is 80% Black and home to a higher percentage of Black residents than any major American city. Mississippi’s Legislature is thoroughly controlled by white Republicans ...

Mississippi's Black community was incensed earlier this week after state lawmakers proposed to create a separate justice system within the city of Jackson that would overrule the majority Black ...