2015/07/09 – South Carolina, the first state to secede from our Union in 1860, voted through its General Assembly Thursday night to remove the Confederate battle flag from its Capitol grounds. After the tragic murder of nine African American Christians …..
2015/07/09 – Mississippi political leaders have refused to stand up for progress and remove a divisive symbol of oppression from the stateās flag.Ā It falls now upon the business community to help pull our state into the modern world. The …..
2015/07/09 – JACKSON – The Mississippi State Conference of the NAACP commends the South Carolina Legislature on their decision to remove the Confederate battle flag from its Capitol grounds. It is not appropriate public policy to fly or display images …..
2015/07/08 –Ā On June 17 a gunman shot and killed nine black Christians in the historic Emanuel African Methodist Episcopal Church in Charleston, South Carolina. āMother Emanuelā as the Emanuel African Methodist Episcopal Church (AME) has come to be affectionately …..
2015/07/08 –Ā Ministers from numerous denominations and faith traditions name love for Mississippi and love for others as reasons to remove the Mississippi state flag. āMy blood runs deep in Mississippi,ā said Isiac Jackson Jr., president of the General Missionary …..