Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Joe Brister of Madison, Miss., pauses briefly in the parking lot of the Mississippi Capitol on Friday, June 26, 2020, in Jackson, ...

Lawmakers in Mississippi voted Sunday to remove the Confederate battle standard from the state flag, after nationwide protests drew renewed attention to symbols of the United States’ racist past. The ...

Protests around the country called renewed attention to symbols depicting racist historical imagery. Credit: RORY DOYLE / AFP via Getty Images On Sunday, Mississippi lawmakers voted to remove the ...

JACKSON, Miss. (AP) — Mississippi is updating its laws to include a new state flag with a magnolia and the phrase “In God We Trust,” six months after legislators ditched the last state flag in the U.S ...

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JACKSON, Miss.JACKSON, Miss. — Mississippi will retire the last state flag in the U.S. with the Confederate battle emblem, more than a century after white supremacist legislators adopted the design a ...

JACKSON, Miss. (AP) - Mississippi will retire the last state flag in the U.S. with the Confederate battle emblem, more than a century after white supremacist legislators adopted the design a ...