A Virginia senator has filed a bill to reinstate the Confederate flag on state-issued license plates for members of the Sons of Confederate Veterans. According to WAVY, Sen. Charles W. Carrico, Sr. (R-Grayson) said his constituents believe Gov. Terry McAuliffe (D-VA)
Bucking the national trend to dump its historic Confederate past, a Texas school board voted to keep Gen. Robert E. Lee’s moniker on one of its district’s high schools. The move comes despite the prodding to rename it from former San Antonio mayor, U.S. Housing and Urban Development (HUD) Secretary Julian Castro.
University students in Massachusetts who were upset by an image of a Confederate flag sticker on another student’s laptop were offered counseling services at Framingham State University.
A young North Carolina woman has taken a stand against the Confederate flag and called it “inherently racist.” On Wednesday, Alexa Rice uploaded a video to Twitter of herself removing a Confederate flag sticker off of a neighbor’s truck. She claims she was riding her
On November 2 video surfaced depicting a beating in which six black men knocked one white man out, then took turns hitting his white friend–apparently because they had a Confederate flag sticker on their truck.
A Tennessee woman visiting her grandmother in the hospital was recently asked to take down the Confederate flags from her car. Thursday, President of Saint Thomas West Hospital in Nashville, TN requested repeatedly for Chaneine McBath to remove the two
A school district is drafting a general policy to ban all items that depict the Confederate flag, after suspending nearly two dozen students for wearing clothing that featured that flag. The Montgomery County School Board in Virginia voted unanimously to draft a policy that would ban all clothing, emblems, decals, or jewelry representing the Confederate flag from all school property in the county.
Lt. Governor Tate Reeves (R) summed up the what seems to the predominant view among state officials when he expressed no interest in blaming Mississippi’s state flag for the actions of a gunman in South Carolina. Moreover, he said that if any serious action was considered it should come from the people, not lawmakers.
Earlier this year, after racist terrorist Dylann Storm Roof was charged with shooting nine black people in a Charleston, South Carolina, church, the media and Democrats across the nation embarked on a crusade to wipe the Confederate flag from society.
On Tuesday, a few students at a Maryland high school were instructed to remove clothing that featured the Confederate flag, as the administration claimed the insignia would be “disruptive” to the students.
On October 11, Governor Jerry Brown vetoed legislation intended to expunge names of Confederate leaders from schools, parks, and public property throughout the state of California.
On July 13, Breitbart News reported that Wild Bill’s Old West Trading Company in Elk Grove, California, took down its Confederate flag after receiving death threats over the display.
On the morning of September 23, a white 10th grader was confronted by two black students after entering Rockmart High School with a Confederate flag attached to his backpack.
Calling the city’s Confederate monuments “false history,” New Orleans’s Deputy Mayor Andy Kopplin revealed that a private citizen is footing the entire bill for the removal of four of the city’s decades-old statues erected to memorialize several Confederate leaders and one battle.
Almost two dozen students at Christianburg High School in Virginia served a one-day suspension on Sept. 17 for wearing clothes carrying the Confederates’ rebel flag.
After reading an ad about a confederate flag heritage ride making its way through Lafayette, IN, a local woman decided she was going to pull attention away from the cause. In only her underwear, a woman by the name of Maddie stood
Police in Olympia, Washington report that last Saturday a U.S. Air Force pilot was beaten by a mob of “anarchists” that took exception to the pair of Confederate flags the pilot was flying from his motorcycle.
On August 30 the University of Texas (UT) removed the statue of Confederate President Jefferson Davis from its pedestal in front of the school’s famous clock tower, banishing it to 18 months out of the public eye before it will be placed in a less-prominent history collection indoors.
The Dickson County School District has decided to ban all flags from pickup trucks on school property. Initial reports had incorrectly stated that the officials had banned all flags at the school, but the district corrected that impression with an email to FOX13.
Appearing on CBS’s Face the Nation Sunday, documentary filmmaker Ken Burns told host John Dickerson he believes America is still a racist nation, and those who have questioned the legitimacy of President Obama’s birth certificate, namely, Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump, have done so as an alternative to using the N-word.
Rainier EhrhardtThe owner of a Macon, Georgia, business said that he wanted to start a “community conversation” by flying first the Confederate and then a Nazi war flag in front of his business to show that they were “just” flags.
George Zimmerman has painted a Confederate flag, which he is selling to raise money for Florida Gun Supply—the store that declared itself a “Muslim-free zone” in the wake of the Chattanooga attack.
The California legislature reconvened on August 17, and one of their first acts of business has been the passage of a joint resolution calling on Congress to enact a federal ban on the Confederate flag.
A group of celebrities and sports figures, including Ole Miss coach Hugh Freeze, Mississippi State coach Dan Mullen, and two-time Ole Miss Heisman Trophy-winning quarterback Archie Manning, joined together to sign a letter demanding that the state remove a Confederate symbol from its flag that has been a part of the banner since 1894.
Police in Pascagoula, Mississippi, reported on Monday that two 16-year-old males were arrested for last week’s attack on the home of a local 85-year-old military veteran.
Danville, Virginia, was the capital of the Confederacy for eight days in April 1865, a fact Danville residents may put behind them on August 6 when the City Council convenes to consider banning Confederate flags from all of its city-owned flagpoles.
On July 31, US District Judge Jackson Kiser lifted a 14-year injunction barring the state of Virginia from banning Confederate flag license plates.
On Saturday, hundreds upon hundreds of people from Georgia arrived at Stone Mountain, the nation’s largest Confederate memorial, to show their support for the Confederate flag. It is interesting to note that the location for this rally. Stone Mountain itself has been targeted in the anti-Confederate hysteria that began sweeping the certain parts of the country following the attack on Emanuel African Methodist Episcopal Church in June.
Julian Castro, Secretary of the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD), stirred up some controversy at a San Antonio high school named for Confederate General Robert E. Lee. In recent weeks, he called for a name change. Not everyone agrees with the former San Antonio mayor.
Sarah Palin pulled no punches when calling for the defunding of Planned Parenthood on Sunday, pointing out that it was Planned Parenthood, not the Confederate flag, which killed 90,000 black babies in 2014.
“This was a symbol for those states who fought against the Union to preserve slavery,” Obama explained to the rapt Kenyan audience, noting although the Confederate flag was an “historical artifact” it shouldn’t be a “symbol of heritage” in public places.
On Monday, the North Carolina chapter of the NAACP will rally to oppose legislation which protects “historical monuments and memorials.” The NCAAP opposes the legislation because it would include Civil War — and therefore, Confederate — monuments and memorials among those protected.
On July 22 a group of protesters from the Commission on Religion and Racism (CRR) used a shovel and “dug up a patch of grass next to” Confederate General Nathan Bedford Forrest’s Memphis statue, saying they hope others “follow suit and dig him up.”
Florida Gun Supply owner Andrew Hallinan is instituting a ban on selling guns to Muslims who interpret the Koran literally. In making the announcement, he declared his store a “Muslim-free zone.”
Police in Hopewell, Virginia, are investigating the vandalism of a home that was flying a Confederate flag.
In a video now going viral, the owner of a Florida gun shop has taken to Facebook to announce his support of the Confederate flag. But that isn’t the only controversial thing in his video.
On July 20, a petition was launched to rename a Long Beach middle school honoring Robert E. Lee.
Anthony Hervey was killed Sunday on Mississippi Highway 6. Hervey was well-known in his hometown of Oxford for wearing a Confederate uniform and supporting the Confederate flag.
More than 130 East Texans participated in a mobile rally to convey their message that the Confederate flag represents heritage, not hate. The rally began near U.S. Highway 175 in Gun Barrel City, Texas.
Al McCray from Tampa, Florida is a black member of a Confederate group who defends the Rebel flag.
