By EMILY WAGSTER PETTUS Associated Press JACKSON, Miss. (AP) – A new lawsuit says the Mississippi flag is “racially demeaning and hostile” because it contains the Confederate battle emblem. The federal suit was filed Wednesday […]
By EMILY WAGSTER PETTUS JACKSON, Miss. (AP) — A federal appeals court has blocked an African-American attorney’s effort to remove the Confederate battle emblem from the Mississippi state flag. He says he’ll take the case […]
By SARAH SMITH Associated Press JACKSON, Miss. (AP) – The Mississippi House has halted a push to require that universities fly the state’s Confederate-themed flag. Republican Rep. William Shirley of Quitman persuaded the House last […]
JACKSON, Mississippi (AP) — Mississippi universities that refuse to fly the Confederate-themed state flag could lose proposed tax breaks, the latest twist in a long battle over a symbol critics see as racist. All eight […]
By REBECCA SANTANA Associated Press NEW ORLEANS (AP) – A federal appeals court is set to hear arguments on a long-running feud over the Confederate battle emblem on the Mississippi flag. The 5th U.S. Circuit […]
JACKSON, Miss. (AP) – Tuesday marked the first big deadline during the three-month session of the Mississippi Legislature. It was the final day for House and Senate committees to act on general bills filed in […]
By EMILY WAGSTER PETTUS and CHEVEL JOHNSON Associated Press JACKSON, Miss. (AP) – A federal judge has dismissed a lawsuit that sought to eliminate the Mississippi flag as a state symbol. U.S. District Judge Carlton […]
Flag debate finds way to nation’s capital By Stephanie R. Jones Contributing Writer Before a group of Mississippians who want to see the state flag taken down took their cause to the U.S. Capitol Tuesday, […]
JACKSON, Mississippi (AP) — The Confederate battle emblem on the Mississippi flag is unconstitutional because it’s a “vestige” of slavery, an attorney argues in an update to his lawsuit seeking to change the banner. Carlos […]
OXFORD, Miss. (AP) — The University of Mississippi quietly removed the state flag from its place of honor on Monday, heeding the calls of those who say the banner’s Confederate battle emblem is harming the […]
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