151; -- The American flag was lowered to half-staff at the South Carolina state capitol last week after the deadly church shooting in Charleston, yet the Confederate "battle flag" still flies on ...

It is different from the South Carolina state flag, which features a white crescent moon and palmetto tree against a field of indigo. But in at least five other Southern states, symbols of the old ...

From the “Stars and Bars” to the “Southern Cross” states across the South still echo the old icons of the Confederacy in their flags even as a growing backlash calls for the removal of the ...

The shooting of nine black Charleston churchgoers by a young man allegedly inspired by white supremacist ideology has reignited a controversy over the proper place of the Confederate flag in ...

Even if the flag is removed in South Carolina, there's still a wide swath of Southern states with flags that at least evoke the Confederacy, as The Washington Post documented Sunday. Indeed ...

There were no flags flown at his funeral, Confederate or otherwise. In their declarations of secession from the Union, some Southern states expressly mentioned slavery as a reason for their departure.

Before the Civil War, few states had official flags. As Southern states began seceding in 1860 and 1861, one of the first things they did in state conventions was establish flags. Just days after ...

A strong push to remove the Confederate battle flag from Capitol grounds in South Carolina and Alabama — as well as the shelves of major retailers — was sparked by the racially motivated ...

A day after Alabama Gov. Kay Ivey and Texas Gov. Greg Abbott announced they would order flags currently at half-staff in their states in honor of the late President Jimmy Carter to full-staff for ...

From the “Stars and Bars” to the “Southern Cross” states across the South still echo the old icons of the Confederacy in their flags even as a growing backlash calls for the removal of the ...