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As Mississippi Counts Vote, Ballot Monitors Say They’re Being Shut Out

Photos by Eric Truman-Reeves for ‘Sipp Talk Media CANTON, Mississippi — It took Natt Offiah an hour to realize he had arrived at the wrong location to monitor the provisional and absentee ballots in the Mississippi U.S. Senate race. He drove to Madison County Circuit Clerk’s Office on Wednesday, but the building was under construction. […]

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Will a Red State Elect a Black, Female Democrat to the U.S. Senate? Cheri Beasley Thinks So.

Cheri Beasley would make history this November if she wins the election to become North Carolina’s first Black U.S. senator. Beasley and a fellow Democrat, U.S. Rep. Val Demings of Florida, are two Black women vying for a seat in the Senate, which currently has no Black women after former Sen. Kamala Harris of California […]

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