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.

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

military service flags and flags of countries allied with the United States. The Confederate flag was absent from the list. The guidance applies to all public displays of flags in "Department ...

Its state seal appears in the center of a crimson St. Andrew’s cross (like that seen on the Confederate flag) and is the only portion of the flag that contains the color blue. Look closely—it ...

When rebels fired on Fort Sumter in April 1861, they flew a blue banner with a single white star called the Bonnie Blue Flag. But as secession got underway, the Confederate States of America ...

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.

In 2020, NASCAR banned the Confederate flag. Southernization coincides with a geographic sorting in the United States. Not long ago, there were Democrats in both rural and urban areas and in every ...

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 ...