Those over the age of 80 are excluded from voting, so only 135 can vote for the new church leader. The term half-mast applies to ships and naval station. When a flag is displayed on a flagpole on ...

Following the attack on black parishioners by a white supremacist in a South Carolina church, all of Mississippi's public universities and many cities have stopped flying the ensign. But the flag ...

The 2015 Charleston, South Carolina, church shooting led to renewed ... The debate materialized in Mississippi through its state flag, which has existed in its current form since 1894, featuring ...

"It’s time to change the state flag." "I am a proud MS girl and I love my home state. When I think of Mississippi, I think of my mom and dad, the church I grew up in, high school football ...

In Mississippi ... a leader in his local Baptist church, said in a statement. "As a Christian, I believe our state's flag has become a point of offense that needs to be removed.

removed the Confederate flag from flying on its capital grounds following the racist mass shooting by Dylann Roof in a historic church in Charleston, South Carolina. The issue of Mississippi’s ...

Old South symbols have been widely debated since the June 17 massacre of nine black worshippers at a church in ... in Alabama. But Mississippi continues to fly the state flag it has used since ...

He cited the slayings of black worshippers at a church in South Carolina last summer. The white suspect in that case had previously posed for photos with a rebel flag. Mississippi Gov. Phil Bryant ...