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A faculty group at the University of Mississippi on Thursday added its voice to those asking that a Confederate monument be shifted from its current spot on campus, as the university’s leader said campus groups’ opinions could influence a final decision.

Supervisors in a Mississippi county are making changes to how county property can be used for public events following a rally supporting Confederate symbols.

The top Democrat in Arkansas’ House, who unsuccessfully pushed this year for removing the Confederate designation from the state’s flag, said Thursday he’s stepping down from the state Legislature.

Arkansas legislators on Wednesday rejected a proposal to change the meaning of one of the stars on the state flag from honoring the Confederacy to honoring the contributions Native Americans have made to the state.

Tennessee Gov. Bill Lee said Monday he is working to change the law that he says forced him to sign a proclamation declaring July 13 as Nathan Bedford Forrest Day.

A college in Memphis, Tennessee, is renaming a building that honors a Confederate pastor who historical records show argued the Bible justified slavery.

A commission behind a memorial for teenage lynching victim Emmett Till in Mississippi was forced to get a new sign with a glass bulletproof front and add cameras and alarms after previous markers were riddled with bullet holes. It’s one of numerous monuments to U.S. civil rights figures or events around the country that have […]

Mississippi residents who want a state flag without the Confederate battle emblem now can display one on their license plate.

DYERSBURG, Tenn. — Less than a week after declaring July 13 as “Nathan Bedford Forrest Day,” Governor Bill Lee visited West Tennessee and made his thoughts on the subject clear. Though it’s been five days since Lee proclaimed the day after the Confederate general and first grand wizard of the Ku Klux Klan, he hasn’t […]

The 1980 photo appears on the Kappa Alpha Order page and shows Lee dressed in a Confederate army uniform.

Polls open Tuesday at 7 a.m. in Tennessee and Mississippi, 7:30 a.m. in Arkansas. (Some Tennessee counties open polls later. See a list here.) Here’s a look at what you’ll find on your ballot. U.S. SENATE There are three U.S. Senate seats on Tuesday’s ballot in the Mid-South. TENNESSEE Republican Bill Hagerty, Democrat Marquita Bradshaw […]