After Mississippi lawmakers voted in June to remove the Confederate battle emblem from the state's flag, they asked people to send in designs for a new flag — and received nearly 3,000 submissions.

JACKSON, Miss. -- Spectators at the Mississippi Capitol broke into applause Saturday as lawmakers took the first steps toward erasing the Confederate battle emblem from the state flag, a symbol that ...

Voters in Mississippi gave approval to a new state flag that bears the image of a magnolia flower rather than a Confederate battle emblem. Sixty-eight percent of Mississippi voters approved of the new ...

This is an archived article and the information in the article may be outdated.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. JACKSON, Miss. (WJTV) – The Commission to ...

Lawmakers in Mississippi voted Sunday to remove the Confederate battle standard from the state flag, after nationwide protests drew renewed attention to symbols of the United States' racist past. The ...

Voters chose to replace the 126-year-old design with the state flower. It may be just a magnolia, but for many Mississippians, it is a symbol of a long-awaited reckoning with their state's history. On ...

Digitas is unveiling a “passion project” from a group of creatives and designers across many of its offices inspired by news that the state of Mississippi was replacing its flag. The existing 126-year ...

Among the many results we got in last night’s election was a new flag for the state of Mississippi, which replaced the highly-controversial one that was removed several months ago. On Wednesday, one ...