West Point grappling with relocating Confederate monument at City Hall
Over the past few months, Blair Key and Barry White have been fielding more calls that usual.
Photos: The Final Lowering
Lowndes County Sheriff Eddie Hawkins unclips the state flag — which displays the Confederate battle emblem in its top left corner — while Lt. Rhonda Sanders holds it on Monday afternoon at the Lowndes County Courthouse.
128-37: Mississippi votes to change flag
Mississippi will retire the last state flag in the U.S. with the Confederate battle emblem, more than a century after legislators adopted the design a generation after the South lost the Civil War.
‘It’s been time to get rid of that flag’: Local legislators react to vote on flag bill
Golden Triangle legislators overwhelmingly supported the resolution passed in the state Capitol Saturday to suspend legislative deadlines and allow for a bill to change the state flag.
Mississippi State, Ole Miss administrators lobby Legislature to change state flag
A host of MSU coaches and officials, along other athletic department officials from schools across the state, spent three hours Thursday weaving through the chambers of legislators throughout the capitol building, lobbying for the removal of the Confederate iconography on the Mississippi state flag.
Mississippi gov might not block change to rebel-themed flag
Mississippi Republican Gov. Tate Reeves said Wednesday, for the first time, that he probably would not stand in the way if legislators muster a large enough majority to remove the Confederate battle emblem from the state flag.
Baptists and Walmart criticize rebel-themed Mississippi flag
The Confederate-themed Mississippi flag drew opposition Tuesday from two big forces in the culturally conservative state: Southern Baptists and Walmart.
Mississippi flag ordered out of park near Statue of Liberty
New Jersey Gov. Phil Murphy on Friday ordered that the Mississippi flag, which carries a Confederate emblem, be replaced by the American flag at a state park that overlooks the Statue of Liberty.
Slimantics: Confederate monuments speak for themselves
The effort to change the Mississippi flag seems to be going nowhere, at least legislatively.
Mississippi lawmakers not changing rebel emblem on flag
Mississippi lawmakers won’t consider erasing the Confederate emblem from the state flag this year because there’s no consensus among them on making a change, a leader in the state House said Tuesday.
Tupelo mayor furls rebel-themed Miss. flag at police building
The Confederate-themed Mississippi flag is being removed from display outside a city’s police building.
Supreme Court axes suit over Mississippi Confederate emblem
The U.S. Supreme Court on Monday rejected an appeal from an African-American attorney who called the Confederate battle emblem on the Mississippi flag “an official endorsement of white supremacy.”
Attorneys: Confederate emblem causes unequal treatment
Attorneys say in written arguments to the U.S. Supreme Court that the Confederate battle emblem on the Mississippi flag is “an official endorsement of white supremacy” and lower courts were wrong to block a lawsuit challenging the flag.
Debates, protests increase over universities’ slavery ties
The national debate over removing Confederate symbols from U.S. college campuses is spurring wider questions about university benefactors whose ties to slavery or white supremacy flew under the radar in decades past.
State gets more time in lawsuit over Confederate-themed flag
The U.S. Supreme Court is giving Mississippi more time to respond to a lawsuit that challenges the Confederate battle emblem on the state flag.
Tarps covering Virginia Confederate statues are being ripped down
Officials in Charlottesville, Virginia, are trying to stop people from ripping down tarps that cover statues of Confederate generals.
Another city could furl state flag with Confederate emblem
Another Mississippi city could stop flying the state flag because it features the Confederate battle emblem that critics see as racist.
Officials grappling with Confederate names on public schools
With a new school year dawning, education officials are grappling with whether to remove the names, images and statues of Confederate figures from public schools — especially since some are now filled with students of color.
Court asks Bryant to defend Confederate emblem
The U.S. Supreme Court is asking attorneys for Mississippi’s governor to file arguments defending the Confederate battle emblem on the state flag.
Historians warn against rushing to take down statues
It’s not just about Robert E. Lee and Stonewall Jackson.