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News  |  Sarah Ulmer  • 
September 11, 2019

SATLER: Mississippi Legislature’s look, leadership likely to change after current round of elections

By: Sid Salter Nationally, the demographics of America’s state legislators are far different than Mississippi’s numbers indicate, according to data available from the National Conference of State Legislatures. Looking at all 7,383 state legislators in the U.S. state legislatures, 82.53 percent are white, 9.12 percent are African American, 4.52 percent are Hispanic, .99 percent are…
News  |  Sarah Ulmer  • 
September 10, 2019

Officials announce new statewide Mississippi Human Trafficking Council

Assistant Attorney General Eric Dreiband of the Justice Department’s Civil Rights Division joined U.S. Attorney Mike Hurst, Southern District of Mississippi, U.S. Attorney Chad Lamar, Northern District of Mississippi, Commissioner Marshall Fisher, Mississippi Department of Public Safety, and Philip Gunn, Speaker of the Mississippi House of Representatives, gathered today in Jackson to announce the creation…