Mississippi high schoolers no longer have to pass the U.S. history test to graduate. The Mississippi State Board of Education voted Thursday to remove the requirement starting this fall.

“Just like with the changing of the Confederate flag, I became a member of the state legislature in 2011,” noted Simmons. “I ...

More than 1,000 protesters rallied at the Mississippi State Capitol Building for the "No Kings" protest on June 14, which was ...

This picturesque college town, home to Ole Miss (that’s the University of Mississippi for the uninitiated), offers that rare combination of cultural richness, small-town charm, and affordability that ...

It also has a white ... a new state seal — and they will become official on May 11. The change comes as several other states also have been redesigning their flags, including Utah, Mississippi ...

The gold and black coat of arms is for ... the Confederate battle symbol. The flag features a white magnolia blossom, which is the Mississippi's state flower. The 20 stars, represent ...

Mississippi ... state flag be hoisted ceremoniously above the seat of the state’s government. It was a contrasting moment just days after a Confederate flag, a divisive symbol of slavery and ...

The magnolia blossom on the new flag is encircled by white stars representing Mississippi ... Democratic state Sen. Juan Barnett of Heidelberg, who is Black and a military veteran, said the ...

But a couple states over, in Mississippi ... both of which are majority Black. Just two of the 16 Democrats in the state Senate are now white. JACKSON, MS - NOVEMBER 27: U.S. Senator Cindy ...

In the years before the vote, the state flag had gradually disappeared from public schools in Mississippi ... memories. A white teacher questioned whether Turner and other Black students would ...

Mississippi had used the same flag since 1894, when white supremacists in the Legislature ... The flag had long been divisive in a state with the largest percentage of Black residents. Although voters ...

Mississippi will fly a new state flag with a magnolia and the ... Many furled the Mississippi flag after mid-2015, when a white man shot and killed nine Black people worshiping at a church in ...