The racist massacre in a South Carolina church has tipped the balance in a decades-old tug of war over the meaning of the Confederate battle flag. Its champions have argued it’s a symbol of ...

The monument, which features a Confederate soldier in uniform and ... rests on a column that is decorated with two trumpets and a rosette containing the United Daughters of the Confederacy emblem.

WASHINGTON _ Despite recent efforts to remove or rename Confederate memorials, there are still more than 2,000 symbols in places across the country, according to a report released Thursday.

Nikki Haley’s press conference at 4 p.m. EDT Monday. She is expected to address the Confederate flag controversy. Following the massacre in Charleston, South Carolina on Wednesday in which a ...

A racist massacre at a Black South Carolina church in 2015 and George Floyd’s murder in 2020 intensified a reckoning over the role of Confederate symbols in American public life and government.

An earlier version of this column incorrectly stated that the Confederate statue from Rockville, Md., was on public display; it was removed in June 2020 and placed in storage. This version has ...

After the death of George Floyd in late May, more than 130 Confederate statues and tributes to divisive historical figures have come down in a flurry of protests, acts of vandalism and government ...

The removal of Confederate monuments across the United States has become one of those electrifying moments—a dramatic, sometimes chaotic spectacle that is about so much more than metal and marble.

As calls to remove Confederate monuments have increased in recent years across the U.S., the debate over what to do with the biggest one is getting louder. Monthly board meetings of the Stone ...

Flying atop a 120-foot flagpole is a Confederate Flag. It is estimated that 80,400 travelers see it every day. The 30-by-50-foot flag on the Teaberry Road property has overlooked I-85 and Highway ...

Mississippi will celebrate Confederate Memorial Day on Monday, April 28 this year. Only four states still honor the Civil War dead with a day off for public workers, though others still treat it ...