In late June, as many people across the United States took a renewed look at the nation’s history of racism, legislators in Mississippi voted yea on House Bill 1796, replacing the state flag.

the Confederate flag or the rebel flag. It never represented the Confederate States of America in any official capacity. The Confederate battle flag was added to the Mississippi state flag 29 ...

This is an archived article and the information in the article may be outdated. Please look at the time stamp on the story to see when it was last updated. Mississippi has made it official: The ...

The Confederate states went through three official flags during the four-year Civil War, but none of them was the battle flag that’s at the center of the current controversy. The first was the ...

The Mississippi state legislature voted on Sunday to replace its state flag, the last in the nation to display the Confederate battle emblem. The removal of the flag marks the latest Confederate ...

ATLANTA — While the Confederate battle emblem is being removed from the Mississippi state flag, Georgia has had its own very tumultuous history with its own flag -- especially since 1956 ...

A strong push to remove the Confederate battle flag from Capitol grounds in South Carolina and Alabama — as well as the shelves of major retailers — was sparked by the racially motivated ...

A Mississippi commission has picked a state flag to replace of the old flag, which was retired this summer because it featured a Confederate flag, but it’s up to Mississippi voters to now decide ...

The battle flag of the Confederacy is probably the most identifiable symbol of the Confederate States of America, and has been incorporated into numerous other flags and emblems – but is only ...

A Florida Republican lawmaker who filed legislation Tuesday exempting the Confederate flag from a broad ban on flying flags outside state government buildings—including pride flags—has ...