Voting rights experts say Mississippi’s restrictions are among the harshest because the state bans voting by first-time ...

The Supreme Court has left in place Mississippi’s Jim Crow-era practice of removing voting rights from people convicted of ...

The Supreme Court on Monday said it will not consider whether a Mississippi law banning people convicted of certain felonies ...

A convicted felon's voting rights can be restored in Mississippi only by a two-thirds vote of the state legislature - something that happened just 18 times between 2013 and 2018, according to the ...

MISSISSIPPI, (WCBI) – The U.S. Supreme Court is taking zero action on Mississippi’s voting laws. A group of people who ...

As the longest-serving Black elected official in the state and the sole Democrat in Mississippi's congressional delegation, ...

The highly evocative package was framed in the context of the “Mississippi Burning” murders of three civil rights activists in 1964 – and it found that too little has changed. The AP team saw the ...

In 1890, during the Jim Crow era, Mississippi enacted an amendment to the state constitution under which conviction of certain crimes stripped a person of their voting rights forever, including theft, ...

WASHINGTON — The Supreme Court on Monday left in place Mississippi’s Jim Crow-era practice of removing voting rights from people convicted of certain felonies, including nonviolent crimes such ...

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