In 2022, Democratic Rep. Jamie Johnson became the first Black person to be elected to represent a Platte County district in ...

Missouri representatives are elected every two ... fill a vacancy in April 2021 becoming Boone County's first elected Black state representative. Smith was active in forming Columbia's Citizens ...

Walthall Moore was elected on Nov. 2, 1920, as the first Black man to hold office in the Missouri Legislature.

Biden received the best combined approval ratings among Black voters ... a 69% combined approval score to the Missouri Legislature. Democrats and Independents were not so generous, with Democrats ...

A group of LGBTQ activists spread out across Missouri in the final days before the presidential election. Residents had viewpoints that did not fit in neat partisan boxes.

While Missouri ... state level we need to make a decision on right now, particularly one that bans it for local governments.” ...

Democrats were projected to win at least 208 House seats and Republicans 215 seats as of Friday. A party needs 218 seats in ...

The state legislature will be able ... the amendment include state Sen. Rusty Black, who filed the bill during the 2024 legislative session, and the Missouri Fraternal Order of Police.

While the country fell short of electing its first woman president, voters in seven states approved ballot measures to ...

(AP) — Newly released prison video of a Black Missouri man who prosecutors say ... email said body cameras are now used at all of the state’s maximum-security facilities.