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Mississippi Flag: Some Question Replacing Confederate Symbol With ‘In God We Trust’
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Lesli White
Mississippi lawmakers recently voted to remove the Confederate battle emblem from their state flag. The state’s Republican governor signed the decision into law, solidifying another response to ongoing racial reckoning and calls for change. Now the debate continues as some question what the emblem will be replaced with. A commission called to redesign the flag…
Mississippi Removes Confederate Emblem on State Flag, Replaces With “In God We Trust”
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Megan Bailey
Last week, Mississippi lawmakers voted to remove the Confederate battle emblem from their state flag more than a century after the South lost the Civil War. Mississippi is the last state flag to have made changes due to harmful, racist symbols. Mississippi, with a population that is 38 percent Black, felt mounting pressure to change…
ACLU, Planned Parenthood form group to fight Mississippi abortion initiative
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Planned Parenthood and the American Civil Liberties Union have joined forces to create the pro-abortion “Mississippians for Healthy Families” with a goal of defeating a constitutional amendment limiting abortion in the Magnolia State. Christine Dhanagom of LifeSiteNews writes that “Yes on 26,” a coalition of anti-abortion groups, obtained a copy of the Mississippians for Healthy Families’ Statement of Organization…
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