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Red Flag

Red Flag

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 Mississippi was the last state to actively fly the confederate battle flag within the canton of it’s own state flag. For many years, state-funded universities and some cities around the state refused to put up the flag. In 2001 a motion was put to popular vote, but in the end nothing was changed. As the issue became more urgent, with white supremacists flying not only the Confederate and the Nazi flags, but also Mississippi’s state flag, a group of Mississippians began creating a podcast to tell the story of how Mississippi is changing itself from within. We saw an opportunity to showcase the future of our state, not the past. We wanted our listeners to shape the outcome of that story. And they did. This is Red Flag.© 2022 Podastery Political Science Politics & Government Social Sciences
Episodes
  • Episode 9: In Whom Do We Trust?

    Episode 9: In Whom Do We Trust?
    Oct 14 2020
    Several years ago, when we started this podcast, we used stars as an example of how people of various perspectives and backgrounds can look at the same image but take different meanings from it. Obviously this was our entry point to talking about the now former Mississippi flag and the confederate imagery that was so prevalently featured on it. As we conclude this podcast with a look behind the scenes at the state capitol and look ahead to the new flag design referendum, we want to ask you to keep considering the question of how you view our home and what a place like Mississippi means to you.
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    35 mins
  • Episode 8: Mississippi Youth Matter

    Episode 8: Mississippi Youth Matter
    Jul 17 2020
    This week, we talk with the organizers of BLMSip who succesfully put together one of the largest State capitol protests, in recent history.
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    23 mins
  • Episode 7: 2020

    Episode 7: 2020
    Jul 10 2020
    Spoilers! The flag came down y'all! But was the really an overnight decision? And at what cost did it take to bring us here? The Red Flag podcast welcomes you back to Mississippi for this 3 part finale, exploring the path that lead the last state in the union to take down it's confederate battle emblem.
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    18 mins
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