Confederate memorials still divide Americans and religion is a big predictor – survey
United StatesRNS “The past is never dead. It’s not even past,” William Faulkner once famously quipped. The Mississippi writer had it right – at least when it comes to the Civil War, anyway. A war that split America as it was fought continues to do so in its memory. An 2020 image of the late […]
At least 160 Confederate symbols taken down in US in 2020 – SPLC
New York City, USAP When rioters tore through the US Capitol last month, some of them gripping Confederate battle flags, they didn’t encounter a statue of the most famous rebel general, Robert E Lee. The Lee statue, which represented the state of Virginia as part of the National Statuary Hall Collection in the Capitol for […]
Mississippi Governor signs law for flag without rebel emblem
Jackson, Mississippi, USAP Mississippi hoisted a new state flag without the Confederate battle emblem on Monday, just over six months after legislators retired the last state banner in the US that included the divisive rebel symbol. The new flag has a magnolia and the phrase, “In God We Trust”. Voters approved the design in November, […]
US state of Mississippi approves flag with magnolia, “In God We Trust”
Jackson, Mississippi, USAP Mississippi will fly a new state flag with a magnolia and the phrase “In God We Trust”, with voters approving the design Tuesday. It replaces a Confederate-themed flag state lawmakers retired months ago as part of the national reckoning over racial injustice. The magnolia flag was the only design on the general […]
Public ideas for Mississippi flag: Magnolias, stars, beer
Jackson, Mississippi, USAP Magnolias and stars. Crosses and guitars. Beer cans and crawfish. A Gulf Coast lighthouse. Elvis Presley and Kermit the Frog. All appear on proposals the general public submitted for a new Mississippi flag. Mississippi recently retired the last state banner with the Confederate battle emblem that’s widely condemned as racist. A nine-member commission will […]
Some question replacing Mississippi’s Confederate symbol with ‘In God We Trust’
RNS Rev Isiac Jackson, Jr, was one of many Mississippi residents who took it as a spiritual victory when the state’s lawmakers voted on Sunday, 28th June, to remove the Confederate symbol from the state’s flag. “God answers prayer,” said Jackson, president of the General Missionary Baptist State Convention. “He may not come when you […]
With a pen stroke, Mississippi drops Confederate-themed flag
Jackson, Mississippi, USAP With a stroke of the Governor’s pen, Mississippi is retiring the last state flag in the US with the Confederate battle emblem – a symbol that’s widely condemned as racist. Republican Governor Tate Reeves signed the historic bill on Tuesday at the Governor’s Mansion, immediately removing official status for the 126-year-old banner that has been […]
In the US, Mississippi lawmakers vote to remove rebel emblem from flag
Jackson, Mississippi, USAP Mississippi will surrender the Confederate battle emblem from its state flag, more than a century after white supremacist legislators embedded it there a generation after the South lost the Civil War. Mississippi’s House and Senate voted in succession Sunday afternoon to retire the flag, with broad bipartisan support. Republican Governor Tate Reeves […]