Mississippi on Tuesday voted to replace its state flag, which had been the last one in the U.S. to include an image of the Confederate themed battle flag.

When Mississippi Gov. Tate Reeves signed a bill to retire the state flag Tuesday night, it was a truly historic and unlikely moment. The flag, which features a Confederate emblem, has long served ...

JACKSON, Miss. — With a stroke of the governor’s pen, Mississippi is retiring the last state flag in the US with the Confederate battle emblem — a symbol that’s widely condemned as racist ...

A 1,100-mile trip across the last state to fly the symbol revealed that it is in no hurry to leave its past behind and retire the flag.

Mississippi will do away with the last state flag to bear the Confederate flag. But symbols of the Confederacy live on in other state flags.

TOPLINE A Mississippi commission has picked a state flag to replace of the old flag, which was retired this summer because it featured a Confederate flag, but it’s up to Mississippi voters to ...

Mississippians who’d like to display their state flag minus its Confederate imagery can rejoice in a newly approved specialty license plate.

In late June, as many people across the United States took a renewed look at the nation’s history of racism, legislators in Mississippi voted yea on House Bill 1796, replacing the state flag ...

Mississippi lawmakers voted Sunday to surrender the Confederate battle emblem from the state flag, more than a century after white supremacist legislators adopted the design a generation after the ...

Mississippi's choice: Confederate past or new flag and future My grandfather romanticized the lost cause. My father fled the state.

WASHINGTON — The Confederate battle emblem on Mississippi's state flag continues to be an emotional wedge issue there ahead of the state's primary on Tuesday, but few of the six remaining ...