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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…
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