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The bill also says any new flag must include “In God We Trust.”

WASHINGTON (AP) — President Donald Trump on Sunday tweeted approvingly of a video showing one of his supporters chanting “white power,” a racist slogan associated with white supremacists. He later deleted the tweet and the White House said the president had not heard “the one statement” on the video. The video appeared to have been […]

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 generation after the South lost the Civil War. A broad coalition of lawmakers — Black and white, Democrat and Republican — voted Sunday for […]

MEMPHIS, Tenn. — Lawmakers in Mississippi came to a historic vote on Saturday in regards to the state’s controversial flag. Both the Mississippi House of Representatives and Mississippi Senate voted to file a bill to remove the Confederate emblem from the flag. The flag and symbol have been under criticism as people across the country […]

The rebel emblem has come under intensifying criticism in recent weeks amid nationwide protests against racial injustice.

JACKSON, Miss. (WJTV)- The Mississippi House of Representatives voted Saturday afternoon to remove the Confederate battle emblem from the state flag. According to the resolution created by the Rules Committee, a commission will be formed to establish a flag that does not include the Confederate emblem. The commission is responsible for developing new designs ideas. […]

Protesters across the country continue to target statues of Confederate leaders and other figures viewed as symbols of racism amid demonstrations against racial injustice and police brutality.

Trump retweeted an FBI wanted poster showing pictures of 15 protesters who are wanted for “vandalization of federal property.”

Mississippi is the last state in the country whose flag features the Confederate emblem. And there may be enough lawmakers who want to remove the battle emblem in the state legislature to make the change, a senior state lawmaker told CNN on Friday.

University coaches and Christian ministers filled the Mississippi Capitol on Thursday, urging legislators to seize the moment and remove the Confederate battle emblem from the state flag.

MEMPHIS, Tenn. — A city park that is the resting place for a Confederate general and early KKK leader now has a new message. Overnight at Health Sciences Park in the Medical District — formerly known as Forrest Park — activists painted the sidewalk surrounding the graves of Nathan Bedford Forrest and his wife with […]