Confederate Flag

Mississippi Gov_ Tate Reeves has signed a bill that gives the state a new flag with a magnolia and the phrase, “In God We Trust.”

A new Mississippi state flag design was chosen on Wednesday, two months after state legislators voted to remove the Confederate battle emblem, NBC News reports.

Design enthusiasts say some of the five finalists for a new Mississippi flag are distinctive and others have problems.

The Pentagon is banning displays of the Confederate flag on military installations, using a carefully worded policy that doesn’t mention the word ban or that specific flag

A group in North Carolina has erected a Black Lives Matter billboard to counter a Confederate flag that stands along a road in the state.

A northern Illinois auto museum says it has no plans to stop displaying a Dodge Charger from the “Dukes of Hazzard” television show with the Confederate flag painted atop the vehicle

In Gettysburg, the Confederate flag may not fly on borough property, but it’s a symbol that tourists — about one million per year — are used to seeing the city of 7,700

Mississippi Gov. Tate Reeves has signed a landmark bill that retires the last state flag bearing the Confederate battle emblem.

The Confederate battle flag is losing its place of official prominence in the South 155 years after the end of the Civil War.

Lawmakers in the Mississippi House and Senate both approved a bill that will require the current state flag to be removed within 15 days. Mississippi Gov. Tate Reeves is likely to sign the bill into law.

Mississippi lawmakers are close to erasing the Confederate battle emblem from the 126-year-old state flag.