JACKSON, Miss. – Mississippi lawmakers voted to remove the Confederate battle emblem from the state flag this weekend after fierce debate that Gov. Tate Reeves called "as divisive as the flag ...

Wednesday, Mississippi's top three elected officials, all Republicans, issued statements on the flag. All three are six months into their first term.

Mississippi is the only state in the country with a Confederate symbol in its flag. The economic group also released new poll results Wednesday that show, for the first time, a majority of ...

Mississippi Gov. Tate Reeves on Monday ratified the new state flag, and Mississippi flew its new banner over the state Capitol for the first time, months after the state retired its decades-old ...

Mississippi’s flag has included the Confederate emblem – a blue cross with 13 stars over a red background – since 1894. Critics of the state flag say it’s racist, while others believe it ...

The state flag of Mississippi needs to have the symbol of the Confederacy removed today. Not after a vote, not after three months of deliberation, not after a committee does a study.

More than 150 years after the Civil War, Mississippi is the last state in the nation to have a Confederate symbol a part of the state flag.

"It will make a great (new) Mississippi State Flag," former Gov. Phil Bryant wrote on Twitter, referencing an alternative design floated in recent days that includes the state seal and "In God We ...

Until now, the only flag of my home state that I would display are scraps, barely holding together, lying on the shelf next to me right now. This remnant of the Mississippi flag was a gift from a ...