Mississippi has one of the harshest disenfranchisement systems in the nation and a convoluted way for restoring voting rights to people.

A push for campaign finance and election reforms in the Mississippi Senate and House have passed through the first of many ...

Jackson, MS () Mississippi has a long history of voter suppression. An 1890 rule that permanently strips people convicted of certain crimes of their right to ...

From Hattiesburg to Jackson and beyond, experience monumental Civil Rights sites along the Mississippi Freedom Trail!

Mississippi voting rights advocates said their fight is not over, even after the U.S. Supreme Court declined to hear a case ...

The Mississippi ACLU has accused state lawmakers of not being transparent when it comes to new legislative redistricting maps ...

The Supreme Court has left in place Mississippi's Jim Crow-era practice of removing voting rights from people convicted of certain felonies, including nonviolent crimes such as forgery and timber ...

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 the ...

Catch up with the latest from the Mississippi legislative session with our weekly recap from the politics team.

The U.S. Supreme Court declined on Monday to hear a challenge to Mississippi's lifetime ban on voting by people convicted of ...

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 ...