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Mississippi Confederate flag protest: Hundreds call for new flag
By The Associated Press
on October 12, 2015 at 5:56 AM
updated October 12, 2015 at 7:39 AM
Civil-rights leader Myrlie Evers-Williams, Mississippi-born rapper David Banner and a prominent South Carolina lawmaker are calling on Mississippi to remove the Confederate battle emblem from its state flag.
About 400 people took part in a change-the-flag rally Sunday outside the Mississippi Capitol ...
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