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JACKSON, Miss. (WLBT) - The Southern Poverty Law Center Mississippi state director, Waikinya Clanton, released a statement condemning Governor Tate Reeves’ proclamation of Confederate Heritage Month. “Despite every effort from the people of Mississippi to pave a new way forward, leaders like Governor Reeves remain fixated on undermining the public’s will for a brighter, better, and more inclusive Mississippi,” said Clanton. The entire statement is shown below. “It is unfortunate that the governor chooses to glorify the Confederacy—a traitorous government that fought against the United States for the right to enslave Blacks. Despite the historical vote to remove the Confederate...

<p>PROVIDENCE, R.I. (AP) _ Rhode Island is well north of the Mason-Dixon line. But that didn't stop Gov. Lincoln Almond's office from issuing a proclamation declaring April ``Confederate History and Heritage Month.'' Thomas G. Kogut, a spokesman for the governor, told The Providence Journal that it was ``processed in error'' at the request last month from a southerner named Calvin Johnson, who then posted it on his Web site. Johnson's Web site _ called ``Proud Son of a Confederate Soldier'' _ featured Rhode Island's proclamation, as well as links to the song ``Dixie,'' and information about those who fought in the so-called ``War of Southern Independence.'' The proclamation's language was supplied by Johnson. It declared April the month in which ``the Confederate States of America began and ended its four-year struggle for states' rights, individual freedom and local control'' just like America's ``Revolutionary forefathers.'' Johnson pulled the proclamation from his Web site when the governor's office realized what it had done and asked him to remove it.</p>