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JACKSON, Miss. (AP) — A group recommending a new Mississippi state flag chose five final designs Tuesday — three with a magnolia blossom, one with a magnolia tree and one with a shield that has wavy lines representing water. Mississippi legislators voted in late June to retire the last state flag in the U.S. with […]

Six people were arrested after police say they were caught vandalizing a monument in the Collierville Town Square.

A Black Lives Matter sign now fills a billboard next to a big Confederate flag that greets people coming into a small town outside Raleigh, thrilling some community organizers and angering the property owner. Organizers of a fundraising campaign that paid for the sign said it’s meant to show that Confederate flags “do NOT represent” […]

OXFORD, Miss. — A man once said Mississippi is an incredible state — full of talented musicians, gifted authors, actors, athletes — but the problem is we can’t keep ‘em. That is in large part because of the past. But we met a man who’s doing everything he can to change the future. Anyone who […]

The Black Lives Matter movement isn’t named in any of the 120 statewide ballot measures up for a vote on Nov. 3. But this year’s nationwide protests over police brutality and racial injustice are major factors in the campaigns in several states for measures with distinctive racial themes.

A huge bust of York, a Black man who was enslaved by William Clark and who was the first African-American to cross the continent and reach the Pacific Ocean, is sitting atop a pedestal amid a lushly forested park in Portland, Oregon. It was placed there in the dead of night last weekend by persons unknown.

Jacob Chansley’s lawyer sent out a press release Thursday asking the president to “pardon those of his peaceful followers who accepted the president’s invitation.”

The new Mississippi state flag will not include beer cans, crawfish, a caramel cake, Elvis or Kermit the Frog.

After weeks of wrangling, the Pentagon is banning displays of the Confederate flag on military installations, in a carefully worded policy that doesn’t mention the word ban or that specific flag.

WASHINGTON (NEXSTAR) — The Electoral College Certification is finished after a chaotic day on Capitol Hill. Many lawmakers said yesterday was a historic day for the wrong reasons. “I’m still furious,” Virginia Senator Tim Kaine said as he expressed his outrage after watching the U.S. Capitol building fall into chaos Wednesday. “Only in the burning […]

Memphis native and superstar Justin Timberlake has called for the removal of Confederate monuments across the country, including the bust of Nathan Bedford Forrest that sits in the Tennessee Capitol.