PHILADELPHIA, Pennsylvania (AP) – City officials in Philadelphia have removed Mississippi’s state flag from a lamppost after demonstrators sat in a roadway in protest while marching down Broad Street ahead of the Democratic convention. The flag includes the Confederate emblem. Brian Abernathy, Philadelphia’s first deputy managing director, says that the flag and a second one nearby have been taken down.

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    Philadelphia-based Poor People’s Army was granted its parade permit last month to march to the doors of the United Center on a technicality. The city missed its deadline to respond to the ...
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