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.

A Mississippi flag flies at the state Capitol hours before Gov. Tate Reeves signs a bill into law replacing the current state flag that includes a Confederate emblem, in Jackson, Miss., on June 30 ...

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 now decide ...

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.

Mississippi’s flag has included the Confederate emblem – a blue cross with 13 stars over a red background – since 1894. Critics of the state flag say it’s racist, while others believe it ...

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. News Sports Counties Business Music Advertise ...

JACKSON, Miss. — 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 ...

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 ...

That sentiment swung into Mississippi, the last place in the nation to incorporate the emblem into its state flag. The state’s two U.S. senators, both Republicans, said the flag should go.

Momentum is growing in Mississippi to remove the Confederate battle emblem — long decried as a symbol of racism and violence — from the official flag of the state, the last to display the ...

When I moved back to Mississippi in 2015 with my husband, I saw them again, angry white men flying Confederate battle flags, waving signs that read, “Make America Great Again” and “Rights ...