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Confederate Flag

Mother of Santa Fe HS shooting victim caught in Confederate flag fight

  • Feb 4, 2023
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Lawmaker, a slaveowner's descendent, wants Confederate holiday's end

  • Jan 18, 2023

Mom shocked by Confederate flags in school library's Christmas book

  • Dec 6, 2021

Missouri City homeowners vote to replace controversial street name

  • Aug 2, 2021

Confederate symbols prove difficult to remove in many states

  • Apr 4, 2021

Deshaun Watson opens 2nd cheesesteak restaurant location

  • Jan 9, 2021

Meet UT's new head football coach

  • Jan 3, 2021

Pearland HS students seen wearing Confederate flag clothing

  • Nov 6, 2020

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Mom of Santa Fe mass shooting victim no longer facing charges in Confederate flag feud with neighbor

  • Apr 8, 2023
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No Layups: UT fires head coach Tom Herman

  • Jan 2, 2021
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Pearland HS disciplines students who wore Confederate flag gear

  • Nov 6, 2020
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NAACP responds to Pearland ISD students caught wearing confederate flag

  • Nov 6, 2020
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SEC tells Mississippi it has to change its flag

  • Jun 19, 2020
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City of Houston to relocate 2 Confederate statues

  • Jun 11, 2020
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Tennessee sees jump in Confederate flag plates

  • Jul 20, 2018
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Man defends flying Confederate flag in his backyard

  • Jul 5, 2018

Latest Stories

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Trump targets 'white privilege' training as 'anti-American'

The OMB was directed to identify spending related to training on "critical race theory," "white privilege" or material that suggests the US is "inherently racist."

  • Sep 5, 2020
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Pentagon bans Confederate flag on military installations in way that avoids contradicting Trump

The Pentagon on Friday will ban displays of the Confederate flag on military installations.

  • Jul 17, 2020

'So are white people': Trump responds when asked about Black people being killed by police

President Donald Trump bristled at a reporter's question about police killing African Americans and defended the right to display the Confederate flag as he continued to play into racial divisions in a pair of interviews.

  • Jul 15, 2020
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Governor signs bill to retire Mississippi's Confederate-themed flag

Republican Gov. Tate Reeves on Tuesday signed the historic bill that takes the 126-year-old state flag out of law.

  • Jun 30, 2020
AP Photo/Rogelio V. Solis

Mississippi lawmakers take steps to remove the Confederate battle emblem from state flag

Spectators at the Mississippi Capitol broke into applause Saturday as lawmakers took the first steps toward erasing the Confederate battle emblem from the state flag, a symbol that has come under intensifying criticism in recent weeks amid nationwide protests against racial injustice.

  • Jun 28, 2020