Democrat Scott Colom ousts Cindy Hyde-Smith to be Mississippi’s first Black U.S. senator since 1881
Democrat Scott Colom’s bid for a U.S. Senate seat in Mississippi was dismissed as improbable — a long-shot effort standing up against the weight of political history that has shut Black people out of statewide representation for generations. While Mississippi was the first in the country to send a Black person to the U.S. Senate,
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