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The significance of Colom's win in Mississippi

NPR | By Jason Fuller,
Sacha Pfeiffer, Patrick Jarenwattananon
Published November 12, 2026 at 7:59 PM EST

Scott Colom < > will be Mississippi's first Black senator since Reconstruction. That era was about 150 years ago.

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