The Mississippi state legislature voted on Sunday to replace its state flag, the last in the nation to display the Confederate battle emblem. The removal of the flag marks the latest Confederate ...

But in an historic first for the state and historic last for the country, Mississippi Governor Tate Reeves signed a bill into law on Tuesday that not only removes that battle emblem from its flag ...

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. The new state flag will feature the ...

Much of Mississippi galvanized around the effort to remove the state flag. Residents now want to seize on the momentum created by the triumph. The Mississippi state flag bearing a Confederate ...

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 ...

The House convened to vote on a bill that would remove the current flag of Mississippi, which has the Confederate battle emblem, and begin the process of selecting a new flag. The Mississippi ...

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 ...

A state commission has selected the Magnolia Flag to be the next flag of Mississippi. Voters will decide this November whether to approve it or restart the process. The decision came down to just ...

An overwhelming 72% of Mississippi voters voted in favor of the new state flag design, which features a magnolia and the words “In God We Trust.” Sherri Carr Bevis is one of the nine ...

The Confederate battle flag was added to the Mississippi state flag 29 years after the Civil War by a governor who fought in it. It was designed by Sen. E.N. Scudder whose daughter, according to a ...

Corrections & clarifications: An earlier version of this column contained a quote asserting that a relative of Gov. Phil Bryant was involved in the murder of Emmett Till. The assertion is ...

The reason is simple: Mississippi, which has the country’s highest percentage of black residents, is the last state in the nation to have a flag that incorporates the Confederate symbol.