{
  "id": 19816619,
  "title": "Scott Colom, the Black Democrat who claimed a stunning Senate win in Mississippi",
  "url": "https://urgent.news/2026/11/13/scott-colom-the-black-democrat-who-claimed-a-stunning-senate-win-in",
  "topic": "world",
  "section": "World",
  "published": "2026-11-13T11:39:51.000Z",
  "source": {
    "name": "Le Monde English",
    "slug": "le-monde-english",
    "url": "https://www.lemonde.fr/en/international/article/2026/11/13/scott-colom-the-black-democrat-who-claimed-a-stunning-senate-win-in-mississippi_6779797_4.html"
  },
  "original_language": "en",
  "account": null,
  "summary": "Colom was elected after a lengthy ballot-counting process. No Democrat had held this seat since 1982, and no Black person had held it for 150 years in Mississippi, even though the state has the highest proportion of African Americans in the country.",
  "key_points": [],
  "editors_take": null,
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  "coverage": {
    "outlets": 2,
    "also_reported_by": [
      {
        "outlet": "The Guardian US",
        "title": "Across racial lines, Americans celebrate Scott Colom’s historic election: ‘The times they are a-changin’",
        "url": "https://urgent.news/2026/11/13/across-racial-lines-americans-celebrate-scott-coloms-historic",
        "published": "2026-11-13T19:05:57.000Z"
      }
    ]
  },
  "ai_generated": true,
  "disclaimer": "Summaries, key points and the editor’s take are written by software from other outlets’ reporting and may contain errors — always check the linked original."
}