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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 ...

Mississippi has a colorful new symbol. Republican Gov. Tate Reeves signed a bill Friday to designate the Mississippi Opal as the state gemstone. "The green Mississippi Opal is as beautiful as our ...

JACKSON, Miss. (AP) — Mississippi's largest religious group says state lawmakers have a moral obligation to remove the Confederate battle emblem from the state flag because many people are "hurt and ...

JACKSON, Miss. (AP) — 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,” seeking a path ...

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 ...

(RNS) — ‘In God we trust that we never go back to the Jim Crow laws, that we never go back to the Confederate flag and that every citizen of Mississippi — whether he’s Black or white — will be ...

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 ...

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