
Seattle Author Mistakes Norwegian Flag for Confederate Flag
A Seattle author sent a news tip into the Seattle Times asking why someone was displaying a Confederate flag in her neighborhood — except the flag was not a Confederate flag.
A Seattle author sent a news tip into the Seattle Times asking why someone was displaying a Confederate flag in her neighborhood — except the flag was not a Confederate flag.
A South Carolina police officer fired for wearing underwear bearing the Confederate flag will receive $55,000 as part of a settlement with the city of North Charleston, a city attorney announced Friday.
The prolific Broadway composer Michael Friedman died on Saturday, Sep. 9, at the age of 41 from complications of HIV/Aids.
A group of students at a Minnesota high school rallied to oppose a flag ban when school administrators banned the U.S. and Confederate flags. Authorities quickly rescinded the ban.
A Texas principal announced Thursday that the high school band can no longer play “Dixie,” the Confederate era song later popularized in the post-Civil War South, because of “safety” concerns.
HOUSTON, Texas — Communists, Democratic Socialists, Brown Berets, anarchists, Black Lives Matter, and other supporters of the “Destroy the Confederacy!” movement marched in the sweltering 99-degree heat in Houston on Saturday to demand that city officials tear down the “Spirit
Six Flags over Texas, an amusements park that made its icon the six national flags of countries that governed the now-State of Texas, took down its namesake flags and replaced them with only the U.S. 50-star flag. The six flags included a Confederate flag.
Every few years, liberals launch an attack on the distinctive Maryland State flag because they claim it is somehow a “secret” Confederate flag.
An official at a Wisconsin County Fair reported that vendors were banned from selling Confederate flags because “someone got their feelings hurt,” a report says.
A teacher at Fresno’s Computech school is under fire for displaying a Confederate flag with other “historical flags” in her classroom.
Tuesday on Fox Sports 1’s “Undisputed” broadcast, co-host Shannon Sharpe lamented the Seattle Seahawks’ decision to sign free agent quarterback Austin Davis over Colin Kaepernick to back up Russell Wilson, saying he is “so upset” owners do not want Kaepernick.
A Civil War battlefield museum in Georgia is closing its doors after a local politician demanded that the establishment discontinues its use of the Confederate flag.
The NAACP, the nation’s largest African American activist organization, is pressuring the governing body for college sports to cancel its tournaments in Mississippi because a portion of the state’s flag contains the emblem associated with the long dead Confederate States of America.
One woman whose job takes her throughout NASCAR fandom is not about to let the presence of the fans’ Confederate flags make her mad.
JACKSON, Mississippi – Community organizers’ efforts to purge the Mississippi State Flag for its use of Confederate iconography see a path to victory in a Hillary Clinton presidency.
According to the left, it’s not OK to fly the Confederate flag. But it is OK to protest the American flag and disrespect the national anthem.
The Department of Veterans’ Affairs quietly moved to ban confederate flags from flying on free-standing flagpoles at its national cemeteries after a House vote earlier this year to restrict the confederate flag in national cemeteries.
The Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC) is weighing whether it is “racist” to wear the Gadsden “Don’t Tread on Me” flag logo in the workplace.
Roswell Police Department out of Georgia terminated a long time officer after an investigation showed she flew a Confederate flag in the front yard of her home, and was “possibly” parking her patrol car close to it, says a report
The Washington National Cathedral has announced it will change a few 63-year-old stained glass windows that depict Confederate flags to help jump-start a conversation about the wrongs of the racist “white church” in America.
Over Memorial Weekend, 163 American flags were snatched from Confederate graves at the Shiloh National Military Park.
Confederate flags are “selling like crack” on eBay although the online auction giant announced it would “prohibit the sale” of the flags following the June 17 attack on Emanuel African Methodist Episcopal Church. Vocativ reports that one seller–Paul Riley–sold enough
Political activist John Sims is encouraging people to join him in celebrating Memorial Day by burning and burying the Confederate flag.
The Sunday New York Times’ “curious editorial decision” to publish a photograph with a confederate flag to accompany an article on presumptive Republican nominee Donald Trump’s appearance with Rolling Thunder in Washington, D.C is making headlines.
House Speaker Paul Ryan tells his Republican party members they’d better get used to “taking tough votes,” such as one to ban the Confederate flag at historic cemeteries controlled by the federal government.
Mississippi-born rapper Genesis Be wrapped herself in a Confederate flag, hung a noose around her neck and ordered fans to rip up a Confederate flag during a recent performance to protest Gov. Phil Bryant’s decision to designate the month of April as Confederate Heritage Month.
Michigan Representative Candice Miller has decided to banish all state flags from the Capitol tunnel because some contain elements of the Confederate flag, reports reveal.
A Bedford County, Virginia, high school sparked a student rally in support of the Confederate flag after administrators enforced a ban of the historic banner.
Two college students have been prosecuted for tying a rope and a Confederate flag around the statute of the first black American to attend the University of Mississippi.
Governor Phil Bryant declared April to be Confederate Heritage Month, saying he hopes to encourage “reflection” on his state’s history.
Per a report by Wave3, a piece of student artwork is the cause of controversy at a Kentucky school district. The artwork, being displayed at North Oldham High School, depicts a police officer aiming a gun at the head of an
A man in Michigan has been convicted of brandishing a gun and threatening three teens who were flying the Confederate flag last summer.
Five different areas on the University of Texas at Austin (UT) campus were hit with graffiti bearing Blacks Lives Matter markings. The graffiti appeared after a Black Lives Matter activist shot himself on the steps of the Ohio statehouse, and after a 17-year-old black man was shot and killed during a confrontation with Austin Police officers on Monday.
A group whose goal is to promote Confederate history arranged for an airplane banner of the Confederate flag to fly over Florida’s state capital to protest a bill that would ban display of the flag on state property.
The man who owns the company contracted to remove the Confederate statues that have stood in New Orleans for decades discovered his $200,000 Lamborghini sports car torched and destroyed, reports say.
Democratic presidential candidate Martin O’Malley thanked Republican South Carolina governor Nikki Haley for removing the Confederate flag from the South Carolina state house.
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)
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.
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.
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
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.
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
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.
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.
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.