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 […]
Baptists and Walmart criticise rebel-themed Mississippi flag
Jackson, Mississippi, USAP The Confederate-themed Mississippi flag drew opposition Tuesday from two big forces in the culturally conservative state: Southern Baptists and Walmart. Walmart said it will stop displaying the Mississippi flag while the state debates whether to change the design. The Mississippi Baptist Convention said lawmakers have a moral obligation to remove the Confederate […]