Mississippi became the last state to remove the Confederate battle flag from its state flag. It was a moment of reckoning for the Lost Cause mythology about the Civil War that dominated much of ...

In late June, as many people across the United States took a renewed look at the nation’s history of racism, legislators in Mississippi voted yea on House Bill 1796, replacing the state flag.

The Confederate states went through three official flags during the four-year Civil War, but none of them was the battle flag that’s at the center of the current controversy. The first was the ...

A Mississippi commission has picked a state flag to replace of the old flag, which was retired this summer because it featured a Confederate flag, but it’s up to Mississippi voters to now decide ...

ATLANTA — While the Confederate battle emblem is being removed from the Mississippi state flag, Georgia has had its own very tumultuous history with its own flag -- especially since 1956 ...

the Confederate flag or the rebel flag. It never represented the Confederate States of America in any official capacity. The Confederate battle flag was added to the Mississippi state flag 29 ...

The act brings into focus the legacy and complex history of the flag, which long ago represented Confederate states in the South that went to war with Northern states in the Civil War.

A strong push to remove the Confederate battle flag from Capitol grounds in South Carolina and Alabama — as well as the shelves of major retailers — was sparked by the racially motivated ...

WASHINGTON — The Confederate battle emblem on Mississippi's state flag continues to be an emotional wedge issue there ahead of the state's primary on Tuesday, but few of the six remaining ...

A Florida Republican lawmaker who filed legislation Tuesday exempting the Confederate flag from a broad ban on flying flags outside state government buildings—including pride flags—has ...