Mississippi's Black Legislators are calling on the governor to hold a special session to change the state flag. The move comes as the nation reacts to violence in Virginia over a confederate monument.

Victims of violent white supremacist protests in Charlottesville, Virginia are being remembered at a vigil in Mississippi's Capital City. MPB's Ezra Wall reports.

"Racial hate symbols" is what Derrick Johnson calls public references to the Confederacy. Johnson is the longtime president of Mississippi's NAACP and now leads the national organization on an interim basis. He says there are also economic reasons to take down remnants of Mississippi's Confederate past.

Thirteen-hundred legislators from 15 southern states are in Biloxi, for a regional conference this week. But a boycott over the state flag is keeping some lawmakers at home.

The University of Mississippi will post a sign acknowledging that slaves built some structures on the main campus founded before the Civil War.

A Mississippi Attorney is taking his fight to bring down the state flag to the U.S. Supreme Court. He's hoping to break new ground.

Racially charged comments by a Mississippi lawmaker drew criticism and calls for his expulsion during the special legislative session.

A white Mississippi lawmaker has been privately apologizing to some of his black colleagues, more than two weeks after saying people should be lynched for removing Confederate monuments.

The Mississippi state flag and what it represents to members of the Legislative Black Caucus have unified the group in protest.

A only a hand full of southern states, including Mississippi, Alabama and Louisiana, continue to observe the holiday.

A top Mississippi lawmaker is blocking an effort to punish universities that refuse to fly the Confederate-themed state flag - a symbol that critics see as racist.

A bill passed by legislators in the House could force Mississippi universities to fly the state flag with the confederate emblem or lose funding. The measure passed by one vote.

Governor Phil Bryant is asking legislators to revise education funding, find new ways to raise state revenue, and fund a trooper school during his State of the State speech to the Legislature last night.

A Mississippi senator wants to penalize presidents of public colleges and universities who do not fly the state flag. He says a majority of Mississippians voted for it and it's the law of the land.