“South Carolina taking down the confederate flag – a signal of good will and healing, and a meaningful step towards a better future,” he wrote. The flag was removed in a short ceremony this morning as some in the crowd shouted U-S-A! U-S-A! and sang “Na na na na, hey hey-hey, goodbye!”
South Carolina Gov. Nikki Haley signed a bill into law Thursday that will bring down the Confederate flag outside the Statehouse, a move that seemed unthinkable only a month ago in this Deep South state that was the first to secede from the Union.
Representative Hakeem Jeffries (D-NY) declared that “the ghosts of the Confederacy invaded the Republican conference” and wondered whether the Confederate battle flag represents “slavery, rape, kidnap, genocide, treason, or all of the above” at a press conference on Thursday. Jeffries,
Thursday on Capitol Hill, a vote on resolution that would remove flags containing the Confederate flag symbol from the U.S. Capitol led to a boisterous shouting match. MSNBC News’ Luke Russert reported, “Let me give you a rundown of what
So many citizens of the Tar Heel state have rushed to order their Confederate flag license plates that the North Carolina DMV has run out of the tags, officials report. Department of Motor Vehicles spokesman Mike Charbonneau reported that in
In the wake of the anti-Confederate hysteria that swept the country following the heinous June 17 attack on a black church in Charleston that killed 9, California state senator Sen. Steve Glazer (D-Orinda) has put forward a bill to ban the use of Confederate names for “schools, buildings and other public facilities.”
A Florida county is bucking the trend of government officials dumping the Confederate flag by reinstating its Confederate banner to a flag pole outside its county office complex.
Unsatisfied with the removal of the Confederate flag from public places, stores and TV shows, activists are now calling for musician Kid Rock to stop using the banner at concerts.
Just over 24 hours after a brutal wreck, NASCAR’s Austin Dillon shared his thoughts on ESPN’s “SportsCenter” about the Confederate flag controversy in NASCAR, saying the Confederate flag is a part of NASCAR and it has been for a long time, but on
If Jimmy Carter is “history’s greatest monster,” as deemed by the good people of Springfield in “The Simpsons,” then President Obama is “history’s most deluded jester.”
The South Carolina Senate voted Monday to pull the Confederate flag off the Capitol grounds, clearing the way for a historic measure that could remove the banner more than five decades after it was first flown above the Statehouse to protest integration.
A parade of hundreds of Arkansans gathered to show support of the Confederate flag in the face of mounting media criticism of the banner.
Hartland, Minnesota, firefighter Brian Nielsen has been suspended after flying a Confederate flag during an area Fourth of July parade.
The national media largely ignored a statement that condemned hatred, racism and violence with passionate clarity, issued by the Sons of Confederate Veterans – a group that bans members with racist view or connections.
SALON: The fight over the Confederate battle flag may change the course of a generation of American politics. The flag is not simply about race. It is about the nature of the American government.
Fans at Daytona International Speedway are defending and displaying their Confederate flags.
On Friday, members of the “Black Lives Matter” movement protested the flying of a Confederate flag at Wild Bill’s Old West Trading Company in Elk Grove. The flag was initially hanging from a rafter inside the store, then moved outside in a statement of defiance against political correctness after the murders of nine black people at a South Carolina church prompted others to remove their Confederate flags. After protests, the flag was moved back inside, but remains on display.
STONE MOUNTAIN, Ga. (Reuters) — Fourth of July holidaymakers ignored a call to boycott Georgia’s Stone Mountain Park, known as the “Confederate Rushmore,” over its display of the contentious Confederate flag.
Long-hitting PGA Tour standout Bubba Watson announced that he will paint over the Confederate flag on top of his Dukes of Hazzard official General Lee Dodge Charger that he bought for $110,000 at an Arizona auction in 2012.
Cultural critic and writer Michaela Angela Davis argued that the removal of the Confederate flag on South Carolina’s statehouse by protester Bree Newsome was “very American” and “also a feminist act” on Friday’s “CNN Newsroom.” Davis said Newsome’s actions were
Confederate flags have been removed from South Carolina’s Fort Sumter per a National Park Service directive barring Confederate flags in “units of the National Park system and related sites” with few exceptions.
Amid NASCAR releasing a statement asking fans to refrain from flying the Confederate flag at events, ESPN NASCAR analyst and former driver Ricky Craven was asked about his thoughts of the flag being flown at NASCAR events. Craven stated that
Columnist and author of “Adios, America,” Ann Coulter stated “What the Confederate flag stands for is not slavery, in fact the Democratic Party and the American flag stand more for slavery than the Confederate flag did” in an interview broadcast
South Carolina House Minority Leader State Representative J. Todd Rutherford (D) said that a protester who took down the Confederate flag at the South Carolina statehouse “became a hero to many people because so many of us wanted to go
On June 17, reports emerged that Dylann Roof shot and killed nine people at Charleston’s Emanuel African Methodist Episcopal Church. Roof obtained his gun “legally,” so calls for gun control have largely fallen on deaf ears. But a photo of Roof posing with a Confederate battle flag has managed to become the impetus for a cause célèbre to banish the Confederate battle flag from public view.
