Black voters

On the 61st anniversary of the Voting Rights Act of 1965, Rep. Kabir Karriem examines the legacy of the landmark law and argues that protecting voting rights remains one of America’s most important responsibilities.

By Rep. Zakiya Summers Mississippians know something about resilience. We have lived through systems designed to silence us, policies built to exclude us, and power structures that too often ignored us. Yet—through organizing, education, and sheer determination—we have continued to move this state, and this country, forward. Today, our democracy is under pressure again. Recent…

By The People’s Paper MS As the dust settles from Tuesday’s primaries, candidates will now pivot from winning over party loyalists to appealing to a broader cross-section of Mississippians. Between now and November, voters can expect campaign stops in small towns and church fellowship halls, a flood of political advertising and renewed debates over the…