Though I greatly appreciate Ian’s thoughts on the Confederate battle flag, I believe that official displays of the flag should end, for two reasons that immediately come to mind. One admittedly ...

For 54 years the Confederate battle flag fluttered in the breeze on South Carolina’s Capitol grounds – proudly, defiantly. On Friday, it comes down.

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 flag’s prominence in the Capitol riot comes as no surprise to those who, like me, know its history: Since its debut during the Civil War, the Confederate battle flag has been flown regularly ...

Debates over displaying the Confederate battle flag are as familiar here as grits and sweet tea. But the outpouring of grief after a racist gunman killed nine African-Americans last week during a ...

Construction crews dismantle the pole and fence that surrounded the Confederate battle flag that was removed from the Statehouse grounds Friday, July 10, 2015, in Columbia, S.C.

The flag is being lowered all over the Grits Belt; Wal-Mart announced it will quit selling Confederate insignia bikinis and beer cozies. Amazon is killing all of its battle-flag merch.

The Confederate battle flag is a vestige of an earlier age of oppression, but the defense of its presence at a statehouse or on license plates today is a threat because it so shockingly discounts ...

Pentagon draft policy would ban Confederate battle flag displays By Lolita C. Baldor, Associated Press Politics Jun 30 WATCH: Mississippi governor signs bill to remove Confederate emblem from ...

CHESTERFIELD, Va. — Two dozen versions of the Confederate battle flag hung from the walls of the hotel ballroom. Grinning retirees wore leather vests emblazoned with it. History buffs in suits ...

Bree Newsome of Charlotte, N.C., removes the Confederate battle flag at a Confederate monument at the Statehouse in Columbia, S.C., June 27, 2015. AP Photo/Bruce Smith ...