PoliticsMississippi elects its first Black senator in more than 140 years
Democrat Scott Colom defeated incumbent Republican Cindy Hyde-Smith in Mississippi’s U.S. Senate race, becoming the state’s first elected Black senator since Reconstruction and its first Democratic senator in nearly 45 years.
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Mississippi elects its first Black senator in more than 140 years
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