JACKSON, Miss. (WJTV) – The capital city and Mississippi’s current capitol building have played big roles throughout Mississippi’s history, but so have many others over the last 226 years.

In Mississippi’s Capital, Old Racial Divides Take New Forms. ... On Feb. 7 the House voted 76 to 38, largely along racial and party lines, to send the bill to the Senate.

In this episode of Mississippi Stories, Marshall Ramsey checks in with Lt. Governor Delbert Hosemann, House Speaker Jason ...

The Mississippi Capitol Police has shot four people in Jackson since ... The victims include a 25-year-old father of two who was fatally shot in the head during what ... The House bill, which a ...

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JACKSON, Miss. (AP) — Former Rep. Alyce Clarke was the first Black woman elected to the Mississippi Legislature, and now she is the first Black person — and first woman — to have a portrait ...

JACKSON, Miss. — The majority-white and Republican-led Mississippi Senate voted Tuesday to pass its version of a bill that would allow an expanded role for state police and appointed judges ...

Other portraits in the Mississippi Capitol are of former governors and former House speakers, who were all white men. The artist, Ryan Mack, said he based the portrait on a photo of Clarke from ...