November 12, 2026
What A Day
Colom Reminds Dems, Mississippi Matters
In This Episode
Mississippi has a Black Democratic Senator! Democratic nominee Scott Colom defeated Republican Sen. Cindy Hyde-Smith this week in Mississippi’s closely contested U.S. Senate race, giving the state its first Black U.S. senator since post-Civil War Reconstruction. To talk about Senator-elect Colom’s historic victory and what it took to get here, Jane speaks with Charles Taylor, Executive Director of the Mississippi State Conference of the NAACP.
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