weeks after police killed George Floyd in Minneapolis and after Mississippi legislators retired the last state flag in the ...
Mississippi is the last state in the US to feature the Confederate emblem on its flag Politicians in the US state of Mississippi have passed a resolution to replace the state flag with one without ...
Mississippi is one step closer to picking a new state flag after a commission on Tuesday advanced five final designs from the thousands of submissions received to replace the Confederate-themed flag ...
“Supporters of a flag change worked through the night to secure the remaining votes necessary for a successful vote to change the state flag,” State Representative Robert Johnson III, a ...
protect the state’s Confederate heritage. Additionally, the proposal seeks to ‘restrict or define’ Mississippi’s heritage in several areas, including the state flag, nickname, and even ...
The magnolia will replace the Confederate battle emblem. There are five rules of flag design. Mississippi’s new flag already breaks one of them The bill to redesign the flag is a long overdue ...
Others also say the flag is associated with rebellion rather than racism. At the end of last month, the southern state of Mississippi voted to strip Confederate emblems from its state flag.
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Mississippi currently offers a license plate to commemorate the Civil War, and funds from those plates go toward maintaining the state's collection of Confederate battle flags and restoring ...
Mississippi politicos joke that whoever ... A group takes down the Stars and Stripes and runs up the Confederate flag. The chain snarls at half-staff, where the flag will remain throughout the ...
‘My hope is that by removing a symbol that divides us, we can move forward as a state in harmony,” Governor Nikki Haley (R., S.C.) said Monday, in the aftermath of the terrorist massacre ...