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.
On July 2, NASCAR officials released a statement asking fans to “refrain” from displaying Confederate flags at NASCAR facilities and events.
John Schneider, the actor behind Bo Duke on The Dukes of Hazzard, is speaking out after TV Land announced Wednesday it had pulled his former show from its lineup.
On June 30, Daytona International Speedway President Joie Chitwood said the Confederate flag will not be banned at the July 5 Coke Zero 400.
ESPN sportswriter Mike Wise responded to South Carolina State Sen. Paul Thurmond (R), son of the late Sen. Strom Thurmond (R-SC), calling for the removal of the Confederate flag. Wise proposed that if a symbol makes someone feel worse than it
On his Wednesday radio show, conservative talker Rush Limbaugh reacted to TVLand’s decision to pull “Dukes of Hazzard” reruns from its lineup. According to Limbaugh, the common theme of the show, which portrays the main characters Bo and Luke Duke
A week after Warner Bros. announced it would halt the production of all merchandise featuring the Confederate flag on General Lee, the iconic car from The Dukes of Hazzard, the show has inexplicably disappeared from TV Land’s lineup.
The night they hauled old Dixie down…? In your dreams, Barack. And that goes for you too, Bill and Hillary, and all the other Beltway “liberal” control freaks. The American left is in a feeding frenzy, cynically exploiting the tragic murders of
The basketball coaches for three major American universities made statements condemning the Confederate flag earlier this week.
NASCAR’s Daytona Speedway is trying to entice fans away from displaying the Confederate flag on their vehicles and persons by offering a special “trade-in” for every Confederate flag turned in to Speedway offices.
Former South Carolina State Representative Bakari Sellers commented on ESPN Radio’s podcast “Capital Games” about the Confederate flag debate in South Carolina. The Confederate flag has been the subject of protests since the fatal shooting of nine people at a black church
According to a Tuesday Suffolk University/USA Today survey, 70 percent of respondents said they do not want the federal government imposing a ban on the sale or manufacture of the Confederate flag.
Corporate chain Walmart has apologized after a store in Louisiana baked a cake bearing the Islamic State (ISIS/ISIL) flag following its refusal to bake a cake with a Confederate flag.
In an appearance on Birmingham, AL WAPI’s Matt Murphy Show last week, Sen. Jeff Sessions (R-AL) reacted to the controversy surrounding the Confederate flag and its place in public forums. Sessions was asked in particular to react to Gov. Robert
So that there is no confusion, let me say this up front: Anyone familiar with my love of movies knows that I have long considered Spike Lee’s “Malcolm X” (1992) to be a legitimate cinematic masterpiece, the best film of
Greg Gutfeld, host of Fox News Channel’s “The Greg Gutfeld Show,” opened up his Sunday show responding to the removal of the Confederate flag and the raising of the gay pride flag. Gutfeld explained that the removal of the Confederate
Texas public schools are jumping on the bandwagon to shun symbols and dump historical figures that memorialize the Confederate South in a politicized push around the state that follows the tragic hate crime shooting of nine African-American church parishioners during a Bible study in Charleston, SC.
On June 26, Alabama Flag & Banner began making Confederate flags in-house, after “a manufacturer decided to no longer supply Confederate flags to [the] business.”
On Friday, The Washington Post ran a column asking readers to “look away from the Confederate flag” and look instead at the gun alleged Charleston attacker Dylann Roof held in his hand.
A Richmond man has been charged with vandalizing a monument honoring Confederate President Jefferson Davis.
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