JACKSON, Miss—The U.S. Senate runoff between Mike Espy and Cindy Hyde-Smith got most of the national attention, but…

JACKSON, Miss—Mike Espy is hoping to pull off perhaps one of the biggest upset of the 2018 elections against Sen. Cindy…

Ridgeland, Miss.—There were just as many members of media as there were voters when Mike Espy appeared at his voting…

TUNICA, Miss.—Devin Gordon was standing outside his second-floor apartment when LaTosha Brown asked to have a chat.

Racism is so embedded in Southern culture that Mississippi Sen. Cindy Hyde-Smith truly believes that she’s not racist;…

Mississippi is burning. It always has been.

Apparently, all of us offended by Mississippi Republican Sen. Cindy Hyde-Smith’s “joke” about being in the “front row”…

It’s hard to sugarcoat what happened on election Tuesday; Democrats won the House, which was a huge victory, but…

The midterms are coming (Game of Thrones voice) and The Root wanted to make it as easy as possible for you to follow…