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Ganucheau: How Black senators controlled the narrative on a historic day at the Capitol
By ADAM GANUCHEAU - MISSISSIPPI TODAY
Mon,01/24/22-1:12PM, 25 Reads 0 Statewide
Below is a political analysis column by Adam Ganucheau:

In the state with the most sordid and violent history of racism, Black lawmakers employed a principal strategy of the civil rights movement — organizing a walkout — to protest passage of a bill that threatened the teaching of that very history.
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Gov. Tate Reeves delivers the State of the State address on the steps of the Capitol on Jan. 26, 2021. Credit: Vickie D. King /Mississippi Today

Harrison: Gov. Tate Reeves, a self-proclaimed ‘numbers guy,’ is ignoring some pretty significant numbers
By BOBBY HARRISON - MISSISSIPPI TODAY
Mon,01/24/22-12:06PM, 29 Reads 0 Statewide
Below is a political analysis column by Bobby Harrison:

Gov. Tate Reeves likes to proclaim, “I’m a numbers guy.”

He did so on social media on Nov. 19 and on multiple other occasions. He’s also been known to remind reporters at his news conferences.
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Sen. Derrick T. Simmons during a corrections hearing Thursday, February 13, 2020. Credit: Eric J. Shelton/Mississippi Today, Report For America

Every Black Mississippi senator walked out as white colleagues voted to ban critical race theory
By BOBBY HARRISON - MISSISSIPPI TODAY
Mon,01/24/22-11:12AM, 24 Reads 0 Statewide
The historic, unprecedented walkout came over a vote on the academic theory that state education officials and Republican lawmakers acknowledge is not even taught in Mississippi.
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Senate passes teacher raise
By GEOFF PENDER - MISSISSIPPI TODAY
Fri,01/21/22-2:30PM, 917 Reads 7,971 Statewide
The state Senate on Friday with no debate unanimously passed a $210-million teacher pay raise, but the entire Black Caucus did not vote because its members walked out in protest of a critical race theory bill passed earlier.
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