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Lee as its "spiritual founder" and long championed the Southern ... flag was flown and fraternity brothers dressed in replica Confederate gray uniforms and their dates wore antebellum-style ...

The Southern Poverty Law Center, which works with grassroots activists to remove Confederate monuments, flags and other symbols ... He is also a designer and model for a school club called the Style ...

the Confederate flag predictably makes appearances at white supremacist gatherings. But how did the battle flag, also known as the Southern Cross, come to represent the Confederacy in the first place?

(RNS) The Southern Baptist Convention, born in 1845 in a split over its support for slavery, has passed a resolution calling for Christians to quit using the Confederate flag. “We call our ...

The Marvel Carriage Museum in Georgetown will get nearly $25,000 in funding from the town, even though it still flies the Confederate flag. A Confederate monument ... He was joined by Joe Lawson of ...

Despite the significance of a recent federal appellate decision, the debate over the legal right to display the Confederate ... flag in honor of her late husband and to celebrate her Southern ...

Editor's note: The Confederate battle flag featuring a starred blue saltire on a red background (sometimes called the rebel flag or the Southern Cross) is specifically the battle flag for ...

A plurality of voters believe that the Confederate flag stands for “Southern pride,” according to a poll released Wednesday. The Morning Consult poll found that 43 percent of voters consider ...

Australian special forces soldiers photographed and filmed themselves posing with a Confederate flag ... smiling and holding up the flag, which has the words "Southern Pride" emblazoned on it.