The first round: Mississippi releases more than 2,000 submissions for new state flag Zapped! Agency swats down prospect of mosquito flag for Mississippi “I’m a sucker for underdog stories and ...

The last state flag in the nation to prominently feature the Confederate battle emblem is poised to come down across Mississippi, after state lawmakers voted Sunday to replace the 126-year-old design.

Segregationist’s granddaughter pushes new Mississippi flag devoid of Confederate icon Mon., Jan. 21, 2019 A Stennis flag flies under the United States flag on the roof of Fondren Corner in ...

Meredith, who resists being called a civil rights leader, now lives in Mississippi’s capital city of Jackson. He was born in Kosciusko and grew up on a nearby farm.

In 1931, Mississippi gave the U.S. Capitol statues of Jefferson Davis, the president of the Confederacy, and J.Z. George, chief architect of the state's notorious 1890 Constitution. (Neither, by ...

The 87-year-old widow of Medgar Evers, a murdered civil-rights icon, called the vote “all but unbelievable to me”. ... → Mississippi changes its state flag; ...