Mississippi honors those who fought for the Confederacy against the United States in the Civil War. Who tried to drop the ...

State lawmakers agreed to remove the old flag with the Confederate battle symbol in June after ... long bike trips and hikes. Mississippi voters overwhelmingly approved a new state flag featuring ...

weeks after police killed George Floyd in Minneapolis and after Mississippi legislators retired the last state flag in the U.S. that prominently featured the Confederate battle emblem. The ...

Amid protests over racial injustice, Mississippi was under increasing ... States of America from flying the Confederate Battle Flag over mass graves on the two days a year that flag displays ...

The Confederate battle flag was replaced by a magnolia design with the words "In God We Trust." When a federal holiday honoring Martin Luther King Jr. was adopted in the 1980s, Mississippi and ...