One reason that South Carolina’s abrupt shift on the flag is so surprising is the very reason that so many Southern states have incorporated prominent Confederate symbols and names. It has often ...

Rivers, however, called it a symbol of "hate and division. The flag is the symbol of the worst of South Carolina's past." The controversy over the Confederate flag in South Carolina has sparked ...

In the wake of a shooting that left nine black churchgoers dead, national debate over the controversial symbol has ... potent emblem. South Carolina has not always flown the flag.

It was also the symbol of the States' Rights Democratic ... which is why even after Haley ordered the American and South Carolina flags ordered to half-staff following last Wednesday's massacre ...

The Confederate Naval Jack is the most generally recognized symbol of the ... Episcopal Church in South Carolina in June brought the debate over the Confederate flag back to light.

South Carolina's leaders first flew the battle ... Lampley said she is a historical reenactor who fears removing symbols like the flag dishonors her relatives who fought for the Southern cause.

Members from a South Carolina Highway Patrol honor guard ... posing with the Confederate symbol. The flag’s place in the state gained instant national scrutiny, with those calling for its ...

South Carolina senators on Monday took a landmark ... who had posed in photographs with Confederate flags and symbols, is being held on nine murder charges. The current bill was introduced by ...

Those soldiers built their fort with palmetto logs that withstood British Navy cannonballs and became such a symbol of strength that the palmetto tree was added to South Carolina’s flag in 1861.

The prominent role of Confederate symbols — in flags ... has refused to sell license plates with the Confederate flag, and South Carolina's governor has called for the Confederate flag to ...

The man charged in the attack had boasted of racist beliefs and posed in photographs with Confederate flags and symbols. South Carolina is not alone in flying an image of the battle flag on state ...

The racist massacre in a South Carolina church has tipped the balance in a decades-old tug of war over the meaning of the Confederate battle flag. Its champions have argued it’s a symbol of ...