During the American Civil War (1861-1865), the military of the secessionist, pro-slavery South flew several styles of Confederate ... The flag has been flown over several Southern cities and ...

Travelers heading to the Outer Banks this summer will see an 8-foot-by-8-foot Confederate battle ... message,” she said. The flag on Walston’s property in southern Chesapeake was dedicated ...

In communities across America, the Confederate battle flag continues to be idealized, often beneath a veneer of Southern pride. But because it was carried by those fighting for the right to ...

The flag appears at Southern college and university ... Sao Paulo state, having Confederate ancestry is a point of pride and is celebrated in high style at the annual Festa dos Confederados ...

To many Southern blacks and whites alike, the Confederate flag is a vicious, genocidal icon—an American swastika—terrifying if only because secessionist nostalgia, redneck intimidation ...

But one day when Moore was planning to have some African American friends over, he saw that flag, with its Confederate cross ... Moore is the head of the Southern Baptist Convention’s Ethics ...

In the wake of the June 2015 mass shooting and anti-African American hate crime in a Charleston, S.C., church, many public officials, including the state’s governor, called for the removal ...

a visiting professor of American Christianity and Southern culture at Duke Divinity School. LGBT people also have reason to fear the Confederate flag. Just a few days ago, I read that a Georgia ...

The nation watched in horror as a mob stormed the U.S. Capitol on Wednesday afternoon, swarming police officers and vandalizing a federal building. Amid the chaos and sea of American flags and ...

(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 ...