
A Virginia senator has filed a bill to reinstate the Confederate flag on state-issued license plates for members of the Sons of Confederate Veterans. According to WAVY, Sen. Charles W. Carrico, Sr. (R-Grayson) said his constituents believe Gov. Terry McAuliffe (D-VA)
by Trent Baker18 Dec 2015, 11:19 AM PST0

Bucking the national trend to dump its historic Confederate past, a Texas school board voted to keep Gen. Robert E. Lee’s moniker on one of its district’s high schools. The move comes despite the prodding to rename it from former San Antonio mayor, U.S. Housing and Urban Development (HUD) Secretary Julian Castro.
by Merrill Hope15 Dec 2015, 4:11 AM PST0

University students in Massachusetts who were upset by an image of a Confederate flag sticker on another student’s laptop were offered counseling services at Framingham State University.
by Dr. Susan Berry25 Nov 2015, 10:47 AM PST0

A young North Carolina woman has taken a stand against the Confederate flag and called it “inherently racist.” On Wednesday, Alexa Rice uploaded a video to Twitter of herself removing a Confederate flag sticker off of a neighbor’s truck. She claims she was riding her
by Trent Baker13 Nov 2015, 2:49 PM PST0

On November 2 video surfaced depicting a beating in which six black men knocked one white man out, then took turns hitting his white friend–apparently because they had a Confederate flag sticker on their truck.
by AWR Hawkins4 Nov 2015, 8:30 AM PST0

A Tennessee woman visiting her grandmother in the hospital was recently asked to take down the Confederate flags from her car. Thursday, President of Saint Thomas West Hospital in Nashville, TN requested repeatedly for Chaneine McBath to remove the two
by Trent Baker23 Oct 2015, 8:36 AM PST0

A school district is drafting a general policy to ban all items that depict the Confederate flag, after suspending nearly two dozen students for wearing clothing that featured that flag. The Montgomery County School Board in Virginia voted unanimously to draft a policy that would ban all clothing, emblems, decals, or jewelry representing the Confederate flag from all school property in the county.
by Dr. Susan Berry22 Oct 2015, 6:58 AM PST0

Lt. Governor Tate Reeves (R) summed up the what seems to the predominant view among state officials when he expressed no interest in blaming Mississippi’s state flag for the actions of a gunman in South Carolina. Moreover, he said that if any serious action was considered it should come from the people, not lawmakers.
by AWR Hawkins18 Oct 2015, 4:54 PM PST0

Earlier this year, after racist terrorist Dylann Storm Roof was charged with shooting nine black people in a Charleston, South Carolina, church, the media and Democrats across the nation embarked on a crusade to wipe the Confederate flag from society.
by William Bigelow16 Oct 2015, 7:34 PM PST0

On Tuesday, a few students at a Maryland high school were instructed to remove clothing that featured the Confederate flag, as the administration claimed the insignia would be “disruptive” to the students.
by William Bigelow14 Oct 2015, 5:46 PM PST0

On October 11, Governor Jerry Brown vetoed legislation intended to expunge names of Confederate leaders from schools, parks, and public property throughout the state of California.
by AWR Hawkins11 Oct 2015, 9:21 PM PST0

On July 13, Breitbart News reported that Wild Bill’s Old West Trading Company in Elk Grove, California, took down its Confederate flag after receiving death threats over the display.
by AWR Hawkins9 Oct 2015, 7:54 AM PST0

On the morning of September 23, a white 10th grader was confronted by two black students after entering Rockmart High School with a Confederate flag attached to his backpack.
by AWR Hawkins28 Sep 2015, 7:11 PM PST0

Calling the city’s Confederate monuments “false history,” New Orleans’s Deputy Mayor Andy Kopplin revealed that a private citizen is footing the entire bill for the removal of four of the city’s decades-old statues erected to memorialize several Confederate leaders and one battle.
by Warner Todd Huston17 Sep 2015, 7:05 PM PST0

Almost two dozen students at Christianburg High School in Virginia served a one-day suspension on Sept. 17 for wearing clothes carrying the Confederates’ rebel flag.
by AWR Hawkins17 Sep 2015, 11:31 AM PST0

After reading an ad about a confederate flag heritage ride making its way through Lafayette, IN, a local woman decided she was going to pull attention away from the cause. In only her underwear, a woman by the name of Maddie stood
by Trent Baker14 Sep 2015, 11:21 AM PST0

Police in Olympia, Washington report that last Saturday a U.S. Air Force pilot was beaten by a mob of “anarchists” that took exception to the pair of Confederate flags the pilot was flying from his motorcycle.
by Warner Todd Huston9 Sep 2015, 6:38 PM PST0

On August 30 the University of Texas (UT) removed the statue of Confederate President Jefferson Davis from its pedestal in front of the school’s famous clock tower, banishing it to 18 months out of the public eye before it will be placed in a less-prominent history collection indoors.
by AWR Hawkins31 Aug 2015, 5:57 PM PST0

The Dickson County School District has decided to ban all flags from pickup trucks on school property. Initial reports had incorrectly stated that the officials had banned all flags at the school, but the district corrected that impression with an email to FOX13.
by William Bigelow24 Aug 2015, 6:28 PM PST0

Appearing on CBS’s Face the Nation Sunday, documentary filmmaker Ken Burns told host John Dickerson he believes America is still a racist nation, and those who have questioned the legitimacy of President Obama’s birth certificate, namely, Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump, have done so as an alternative to using the N-word.
by Kipp Jones24 Aug 2015, 11:07 AM PST0

Rainier EhrhardtThe owner of a Macon, Georgia, business said that he wanted to start a “community conversation” by flying first the Confederate and then a Nazi war flag in front of his business to show that they were “just” flags.
by Warner Todd Huston19 Aug 2015, 10:33 PM PST0

George Zimmerman has painted a Confederate flag, which he is selling to raise money for Florida Gun Supply—the store that declared itself a “Muslim-free zone” in the wake of the Chattanooga attack.
by AWR Hawkins18 Aug 2015, 6:52 PM PST0

The California legislature reconvened on August 17, and one of their first acts of business has been the passage of a joint resolution calling on Congress to enact a federal ban on the Confederate flag.
by AWR Hawkins18 Aug 2015, 9:28 AM PST0

A group of celebrities and sports figures, including Ole Miss coach Hugh Freeze, Mississippi State coach Dan Mullen, and two-time Ole Miss Heisman Trophy-winning quarterback Archie Manning, joined together to sign a letter demanding that the state remove a Confederate symbol from its flag that has been a part of the banner since 1894.
by Warner Todd Huston18 Aug 2015, 12:01 AM PST0

Police in Pascagoula, Mississippi, reported on Monday that two 16-year-old males were arrested for last week’s attack on the home of a local 85-year-old military veteran.
by Warner Todd Huston6 Aug 2015, 7:50 PM PST0