It's no secret that Mississippians - especially Black Mississippians - are overlooked. We are overlooked by Washington, by the Democratic Party, by the media, by national political prognosticators.
I've been through the fire and came out stronger and tested.
We must do everything possible to protect the lives of everyone and help make sure no one in this country feels unsafe.
As I grew older I began to realize that Mississippi really wasn't that bad. The basis for progress has always been there. And the opportunity is limitless.
Thomas J. Huddleston never cast a ballot in his lifetime but he found a way to lift Black Mississippians up. And that is a legacy I will carry with me always.
I want to be a senator for everyone. I'm trying to get votes from everyone, regardless of race, or age, or gender, or sexual orientation, or disability - or even party. I'm going to Republicans and...
After the Civil War, Black Mississippians had economic power, voting rights, and citizenship. They used their majority to elect African-Americans to office up and down the ballot.
You use a glass mirror to see your face; you use works of art to see your soul.
But that was war. Just about all he could find in its favor was that it paid well and liberated...
The TV business is uglier than most things. It is normally perceived as some kind of cruel and...
You better take care of me Lord, if you don't you're gonna have me on your hands.
It was the Law of the Sea, they said. Civilization ends at the waterline. Beyond that, we all enter...
Reality is that which, when you stop believing in it, doesn't go away.
The Edge... there is no honest way to explain it because the only people who really know where it is...
If I'd written all the truth I knew for the past ten years, about 600 people - including me - would...
Silence is only frightening to people who are compulsively verbalizing.