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This is a picture of a twelve-year old girl. (I assume. It's from an article titled  "Awesome Things About Raising 12 Year Olds....

I've arrived in Chicago ! I wouldn't characterize myself as "new in town", since I've already lived in Chicago (indeed...

Mississippi is currently engaged in litigation over whether its State Senate district boundaries diluted the voting power of Black residents...

Mississippi Senate candidate Cindy Hyde-Smith (R) (she's headed into a runoff against Democrat Mike Espy) landed in hot water with her ....

In anticipation of their upcoming primaries, PPP polls Alabama and Mississippi . They're finding that both states are essentially knotte...

PPP just did a polling grab bag in Mississippi , but their most interesting question was a hypothetical presidential match-up between Abraha...

This one might be a bit more haphazard than most, as it incorporates some election night celebration. As for the title, my laptop had its ha...

I had never heard of her until five minutes ago, but Joan Trumpauer Mulholland sounds like an amazing person (and an amazing story). Not on...

It's easy to get demoralized about the fact that a Mississippi school district is, in 2010, facing a desegregation order after a court ...

Marc Porier on the aftermath of the Mississippi prom case (where a rural town and school district went to great lengths to stop a lesbian s...

Who here is surprised that Mississippi Governor Haley "The top is not the top" Barbour (R-MS) doesn't think that Virginia Go...

The old mascot of the University of Mississippi was one "Colonel Reb", a reference to the old Confederate Army. The university rec...

A big part of Mississippi Governor Haley Barbour's (R- Wildly Corrupt ) budget plan involves closing down a bunch of HBCUs, consolidatin...

I guess we get to screw all we want! In response to an ACLU suit over Mississippi's religiously inflected "abstinence only" pr...

Y'all might think I'm the most cynical White person on race relations alive in America today. But that isn't true. Take this pos...

The Mississippi Supreme Court has ruled 8-1 that Gov. Haley Barbour's (R) effort to drop the Mississippi Senate special election to th...

Mississippi Governor and noted corrupt maniac Haley Barbour (R) has decided to place the Mississippi Senate special election at the bottom ...

Your daily dose of civil rights and related news from around the country . Here's a convoluted story: Eli Lilly and Co. will pay $64,400...

Though at the moment Rep. Walter Jones (R-NC) is known as the most prominent Republican defector regarding the Iraq War, at one time he was ...

Good news and bad news for Democrats in the heart of Dixie. The bad news: Freshman Senator Saxby Chambliss (R-GA) has comfortable leads ove...