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Foster Campbell, the Louisiana public service commissioner and Democratic Senate candidate, speaks to supporters in New Orleans, Nov. 17, 2016. Because of LouisianaÕs curious election process, the Senate race here is the last major national vote of 2016. The Republicans will hold a majority in any case, but Louisiana Democrats still feel the urgency. (Edmund D. Fountain/The New York Times)

November 26, 2016 at 4:28 pm

In Louisiana rancher, Democrats see a faint hope of gaining a U.S. Senate seat

Because of Louisiana’s curious election process — a nonpartisan, free-for-all primary Nov. 8, leading to a runoff of the two top finishers on Dec. 10...

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June 21, 2016 at 10:35 am

Case closed: 1964 ‘Mississippi Burning’ investigation ends

The investigation into the 1964 slayings of three civil-rights volunteers by a group of Klansmen, an inquiry that became known as the “Mississippi Burning” case,...

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Robert Gray, a long-haul trucker who is Mississippi’s Democratic nominee for governor, in Jackson, Miss., Sept. 3, 2015. Gray won the Democratic primary even though he never campaigned, and his own mother did not know he was running until she saw the ballot. (Andrea Morales/The New York Times)

September 7, 2015 at 5:00 pm

Shy trucker emerges as Democrats’ pick for Mississippi governor

Robert Gray’s victory in the Democratic primary for governor of Mississippi illustrates to some degree the forlorn state of affairs for Democrats in the South.

Dale Cox, acting district attorney for Caddo Parish in Louisiana, where more people were sentenced to death per capita than in any other U.S. county from 2010 to 2014, at the downtown courthouse in Shreveport, La., June 23. 2015. Supreme Court Justice Stephen Breyer’s much-discussed dissent from the court’s ruling on lethal injection spotlights how about half of all death sentences have come out of just 29 U.S. counties. (Brandon Thibodeaux/The New York Times)

July 7, 2015 at 5:23 pm

A death-penalty avenging angel in a Louisiana parish

Acting district attorney Dale Cox’s personal evolution serves not only as a window into the criminal justice system in Louisiana’s Caddo Parish, but also goes...

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February 14, 2015 at 6:01 am

Lynchings in the American South: taking count, taking note

Lynchings in the American South were far more numerous than previously acknowledged, with nearly 4,000 people killed from 1877 to 1950, according to a new...

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November 25, 2014 at 8:45 am

For Ferguson grand jury, a mass of evidence, much of it conflicting

FERGUSON, Mo. — Michael Brown became so angry when he was stopped by Officer Darren Wilson on Canfield Drive here on Aug. 9, his face...

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November 2, 2014 at 8:21 pm

Tight races in 2 states could leave Senate control in limbo

NEW ORLEANS — As the 2014 midterm elections barrel toward a close and Democrats brace for losses around the country, operatives in both parties are...

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June 25, 2014 at 9:39 pm

Black voters in Miss. boost GOP Cochrane in cross-party effort

JACKSON, Miss. — For the first time since President Nixon’s divisive “Southern strategy” sent whites to the Republican Party and blacks to the Democratic Party,...

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June 21, 2014 at 7:47 pm

Thinking outside the coffin: Funerals feature lifelike poses

NEW ORLEANS — All last week, people were calling Louis Charbonnet to find out how they might avoid lying down at their funeral. Funeral directors...

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April 12, 2014 at 6:02 am

Civil-rights museum pledges no ‘sugarcoating’ Mississippi history

HATTIESBURG, Miss. — In the woods off Monroe Road, a truck is so rusted that it is melting into the earth. It was Vernon Dahmer’s...

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