US Democrats candidate Colom wins Mississippi, is state’s first Black senator in over 150 years

Democratic challenger Scott Colom defeated incumbent Republican Cindy Hyde-Smith in the Mississippi election for the US Senate, media projected on Wednesday, making him the Southern state’s first Black senator since the Reconstruction era that followed the US Civil War.

The result was a stunning upset in the heavily Republican state and

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