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 ...

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.

60 Minutes has been reporting on the debate over Confederate monuments for nearly three years. Today that debate is as charged as arguments to defund American police departments. When we began our ...

Thousands of Confederate symbols are standing in public spaces around the nation despite ongoing efforts to have them removed or renamed. More than 2,000 Confederate symbols, including 685 ...

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.

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.

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 ...

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 ...

Communities across the American South have removed Confederate monuments from public spaces in recent years. Some have gone to museums, others are locked away in storage. But one particularly ...

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 ...

By Yan Zhuang A Confederate monument was taken down in Jacksonville, Fla., on Wednesday, after an order by the city’s mayor ended years of debate, as officials around the United States reckon ...