FILE - Mississippi Gov. Ross Barnett waves a confederate flag before the start of Ole Miss-Kentucky football game at the stadium on Sept. 29, 1962, in Jackson, Miss. With Barnett is his wife, the ...

FILE - Mississippi Gov. Ross Barnett waves a confederate flag before the start of Ole Miss-Kentucky football game at the stadium on Sept. 29, 1962, in Jackson, Miss. With Barnett is his wife, the ...

Mississippi could soon be singing a new song — or three. The legislature is considering a bill to replace the state's official song, "Go, Mississippi," which was adopted in 1962. The Senate, however, ...

Mississippi may replace its segregation-tainted state song with as many as three different tunes to represent it, depending on which bill lawmakers pass. While the Mississippi state House prefers “One ...

“Go Mississippi!,” the state’s official song for the past 60 years, is apparently going, going, gone with the wind. The song written and recorded by songwriter-musician Houston Davis needs only Gov.

Mississippi's newest laws will take effect July 1. Those laws include tax cuts, medical marijuana, teacher pay raises and changes to methods for the death penalty. Here's a closer look at some of the ...

JACKSON, Miss. – Mississippi is ditching a state song that's based on the campaign tune of a former governor who pledged to preserve segregation. The current governor, Republican Tate Reeves, signed a ...

Mississippi is on the verge of scuttling a state song with racist roots, two years after it retired a Confederate-themed state flag. The current song, “Go, Mississippi,” takes its tune from a 1959 ...

JACKSON, Miss.JACKSON, Miss. — Mississippi is ditching a state song that’s based on the campaign tune of a former governor who pledged to preserve segregation. The current governor, Republican Tate ...

JACKSON, Miss. (AP) — Mississippi is on the verge of scuttling a state song with racist roots, two years after it retired a Confederate-themed state flag. The current song, “Go, Mississippi," takes ...