Some Mississippi school leaders refused to display the state’s previous flag, to shield students from a symbol of the Old South. A new flag is changing that. IE 11 is not supported.

Just as the state flag had served as a symbol of white supremacy for 126 years, beginning nearly 30 years after the Confederacy’s defeat, the lowering of the flag for the final time by a Black ...

For years, many black residents have described the Mississippi state flag as a banner tied to bigotry.“That flag represents terrorism and hatred,” said flag opponent Sharon Brown.But 16 WAPT’s Ross ...

Two Mississippi state flags wave outside the Capitol in Jackson, Miss., in 2019. State lawmakers voted to retire the current flag, and Mississippi GOP Gov. Tate Reeves is expected to sign the measure.

A Mississippi State flag is seen during a game between the Mississippi Rebels and the LSU Tigers at Vaught-Hemingway Stadium on October 21, 2017 in Oxford, Mississippi. On Tuesday, June 23, Laurel ...

Mississippi’s flag, the last US state flag to bear the emblem of the confederacy, was retired on June 30. Here, five emerging artists envision a new design that celebrates their home state.

Former Mississippi Gov. William Winter, who is now 97, served on then-President Bill Clinton's national advisory board on race in the 1990s and was chairman of the Mississippi flag commission in 2000.

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

Mississippi’s flag, the last US state flag to bear the emblem of the confederacy, was retired on June 30. Here, five emerging artists envision a new design that celebrates their home state.

A Black Mississippi mayor was overcome with emotion as he signed an order to remove the Mississippi State Flag — which contains a symbol of the Confederate battle flag — from all city-owned ...

Mississippi’s flag, the last US state flag to bear the emblem of the confederacy, was retired on June 30. Here, five emerging artists envision a new design that celebrates their home state.