Yvonne Lannie of Midland Avenue still cares for a magnolia tree, in the yard of an abandoned house, that was planted by a master gardener - Catherine Adamsick - who died decades ago. The windows ...

Mississippi State Flag Commission member TJ Taylor suggests the New Magnolia Flag, selected by the nine-member commission during their meeting Wednesday, Sept. 2, 2020, in Jackson, Miss., ...

Mississippi voters on Tuesday approved a new state flag with a magnolia flower and red ... the flag with the Confederate symbol increasingly came to evoke segregation, racial violence and a ...

Voters chose to replace the 126-year-old design with the state flower. It may be just a magnolia, but for many Mississippians, it is a symbol of a long-awaited reckoning with their state's history.

The new state flag features a magnolia flower, a symbol of hospitality, surrounded by 20 stars, signifying Mississippi’s status as the 20th state in the union, and a gold five-point star to ...

The flag features a white magnolia blossom on a dark blue backdrop ... reminder of America’s war to uphold slavery and a painful symbol for Black Americans. They also argued the 1894 flag ...

A symbol of memory and history Known as the Jackson Magnolia, the tree has been a part of the White House landscape for nearly two centuries. According to the National Park Service, the two ...

The landmark Magnolia Building is best known for its rooftop flying red horse sign.(G.J. McCarthy / Staff Photographer) The rooftop Pegasus sign — a symbol of the Magnolia Oil Co. that was ...

She chose a magnolia because she believes the flower is an easily recognizable symbol of Mississippi. “I still very much love my home state,” she said. Kara Giles of Oxford also worked on the ...