Mississippi Governor, Tate Reeves signed a bill Tuesday removing the Confederate battle standard from the state flag after nationwide protests drew renewed attention to symbols of the United States’ racist past. Mississippi is the only American state to incorporate the Confederate standard on its official flag after nearby Georgia dropped it in 2003. “This is not a political moment, it is a solemn occasion to come together as a Mississippi family, reconcile, and move forward together,” Governor Tate Reeves wrote on Facebook. Tate said that a commission on the flag would “begin...