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JACKSON, Miss. (WJTV) – Members of the Commission to Redesign the Mississippi State Flag met at the Old Capitol Museum in Jackson on Tuesday. Each of the five final flag designs under consideration were raised on the flagpole. Afterwards, the commissioners continued their meeting at the Two Mississippi Museums. During their meeting, the commission eliminated […]

RICHMOND, Va. (AP) — Devon Henry paced in nervous anticipation, because this was a project like nothing he’d ever done. He wore the usual hard hat — and a bulletproof vest. An accomplished Black businessman, Henry took on a job the city says others were unwilling to do: lead contractor for the now-completed removal of […]

JACKSON, Miss. (AP) — Magnolias and stars. Crosses and guitars. Beer cans and crawfish. A Gulf Coast lighthouse. Elvis Presley and Kermit the Frog. All appear on proposals the general public submitted for a new Mississippi flag. Mississippi recently retired the last state banner with the Confederate battle emblem that’s widely condemned as racist. A nine-member commission […]

The senior GOP US senator from Mississippi said Monday that the decision by his state to change its “divisive” flag with the Confederate emblem was long overdue, while praising the decision by NASCAR to ban the battle flag of the Southern secessionists at its events as “absolutely the right thing to do.”

The US Marine Corps has ordered the removal of all public displays of the Confederate flag from Marine installations.

The Senate passed the 2021 National Defense Authorization Act Friday despite President Donald Trump’s objections and threats to veto the bill. The $740 billion defense bill is now heading to his desk.

MEMPHIS, Tenn. — The commissioner of the Southeastern Conference says the SEC will consider not holding championship events in Mississippi unless the state flag is changed. SEC Commissioner Greg Sankey released a statement Thursday evening, saying in part, “It is past time for change to be made to the flag of the State of Mississippi. […]

COLLIERVILLE, Tenn. – – A Collierville man is demanding a Confederate monument be removed from the town’s square. It’s a Civil War battle marker and it was placed in the square by the United Daughters of the Confederacy decades ago. It was there when Dillard’s grandparents moved to Collierville in the 1940’s. “When I look […]

Two of Mississippi’s top elected Republicans proposed Wednesday that the Confederate battle emblem be replaced on the state flag with the words “In God We Trust.”

Governor Tate Reeves said Wednesday, for the first time, that he probably would not stand in the way if legislators muster a large enough majority to remove the Confederate battle emblem from the state flag.

OXFORD, Miss. — The entire University of Mississippi football team walked out of practice Friday morning, protesting police brutality in the wake of the police shooting of Jacob Blake in Wisconsin. Holding signs that call for an end to police brutality, players and coaches marched to the courthouse in Oxford, where they gathered at the […]