Mississippi State reveals new state flag at Davis Wade Stadium ahead of win over Vanderbilt
Tuesday, the new state flag was approved overwhelmingly via referendum. Four days later, it was carried onto Scott Field.
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.
Legislators hope for flag vote this weekend
The tide is turning in the Mississippi Legislature.
As athletic department officials from Ole Miss, Mississippi State and other Magnolia State institutions, along with various lobbyists, descended on the state Capitol in Jackson on Thursday, lawmakers hoped the effort would draw out the votes both the House and Senate will need to vote on a bill removing the Confederate battle emblem emblazoned on 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 Gov. Tate Reeves rejects ‘separate but equal’ 2-flag plan
JACKSON — Mississippi Republican Gov. Tate Reeves said Monday that he’s against having two state flags — the current banner with the Confederate battle emblem that critics see as racist, and a yet-to-be-determined design that would erase Confederate images.
State legislators see hope for changing the state flag in light of NCAA ruling
The futures of the Mississippi state flag and Mississippi State University athletics — and by extension, the city of Starkville’s financial health — are intertwined and in the hands of the state Legislature for the foreseeable future.
University officials, fans react to NCAA ruling on Confederate flag, hosting postseason play
Collegiate athletics in the Magnolia State are feeling the effects of the Mississippi flag debate.
Friday, the NCAA announced that championship hosting opportunities earned on merit would no longer be allowed to be held in Mississippi until the state flag, which displays the Confederate battle emblem in its upper left corner, is changed.
Majority of local delegation supports flag change legislation
Since 2015, bills filed in the Mississippi Legislature to remove the state’s current flag, adopted in 1894, have died in committee in both chambers.
That may be changing.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.