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 ...

Mississippi’s new state flag will feature the magnolia flower after the state in a historic move this summer parted with its decades-old banner that ... The 1894 flag flew for the last time ...

If Mississippi changed its state flag, what would the new one look like? Here are some options. ... The Magnolia Flag was replaced in 1894 with Mississippi's current flag.

Mississippi state flag: Stop clinging to past, ... There is no greater manifestation of that than our stubborn insistence on clinging to the state’s 1894 Reconstruction Era state flag ...

The Commission to Redesign the Mississippi State Flag ... Mississippi Gov. Tate Reeves signed a bill in June that removed the racist symbol from the state's flag, which had been in place since 1894.

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 ...

State lawmakers over the summer voted to take down Mississippi's old flag with its Confederate battle symbol, in use since 1894. Their decision came amid growing pressure from residents as well as ...

Mississippi may consider removing the Confederate emblem from its state flag, after Mississippi House Speaker Philip Gunn called for the change yesterday, becoming the first high-profile ...

Originally designed in 1894, the Mississippi flag came under scrutiny in 2001 during a referendum led by the Mississippi Economic Council, the state’s chamber of commerce, which argued that it ...

The design of the Mississippi state flag has contained in its upper-left corner the same Confederate emblem since 1894. In May 2000, the Mississippi Supreme Court ruled that the law establishing ...

After more than a century, Mississippi's state flag will no longer feature the Confederate battle emblem. ... which has been in place for 126 years, since 1894.

The flag, which has flown since 1894, is poised to come down, becoming yet another emblem of the Confederacy to be removed across the South. By Rick Rojas Update: In a ceremony on Tuesday evening ...