Mississippi Gov. Tate Reeves signed a bill on Tuesday to remove the Confederate emblem from the state’s flag — a historic decision that will officially put the 126-year-old banner, if not the ...

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 ...

The new state flag features a magnolia flower, a symbol of hospitality, surrounded by 20 stars, signifying Mississippi’s status as the 20th state in the union, and a gold five-point star to ...

Mississippi plans to fly a new state flag — a flag without the Confederate battle emblem in the corner. The state House and Senate voted Sunday to retire the current flag, and Mississippi ...

Tensions are high. If we take down the current flag, what would fly over our government buildings? Mississippi artist Laurin Stennis has designed and proposed a new state flag. Her grandfather ...

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 ...

Two Mississippi universities have removed the state flag, which features a Confederate emblem, from campus amid statewide debate over what to do with the controversial banner. Mississippi State ...

JACKSON, Miss. (WLBT) - The Mississippi Flag Commission made its choice for a new state flag. The flag commission voted 8-1 to choose the New Magnolia flag over the Great River flag. The ...

the Mississippi Economic Council, which led the campaign to rid the state flag of the familiar Confederate symbol -- a blue cross with 13 white stars. With 93 percent of precincts reporting ...

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 ...