Democrat Colom elected Mississippi’s first Black senator since 1874
Democratic challenger Scott Colom defeated incumbent Republican Cindy Hyde-Smith in the Mississippi election for the US Senate, media projected, making him the Southern state’s first Black senator since the Reconstruction era that followed the US Civil War.
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