-This city's water crisis had become a classic David and Goliath story: A predominantly Black city, led by its mayor, Chokwe Antar Lumumba, facing off with "good ole boy" Governor Tate Reeves and his predominantly white state legislature-controlled by a Republican supermajority made possible by more than a century of violent voter suppression and racist gerrymandering.
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