JACKSON, Miss. -- With a stroke of the governor's pen, Mississippi is retiring the last state flag in the U.S. with the Confederate battle emblem - a symbol that's widely condemned as racist.

Native South Carolinian and civil rights activist Rev. Jesse Jackson talks to CBSN about the flag's removal For the first time in over 50 years, the Confederate battle flag will not appear on the ...

COLUMBIA, S.C. (WIS) - Thursday marks a decade since the Confederate flag that flew over the grounds of the South Carolina State House was permanently lowered. The decision came following a ...

A statue honoring Confederate soldiers, dedicated on the Franklin, Tenn., town square in 1899. (Photo: John Partipilo) I hear from many Tennesseans concerned about the Trump administration’s effort to ...

Since alleged gunman Dylann Roof has been charged with the killing of nine people inside the Emanuel African Methodist Episcopal Church in Charleston, South Carolina, major debate has shifted over to ...

A House Divided is a new column about the Civil War that will appear monthly in District Extra. Linda Wheeler, a longtime staff writer whose beat includes area history, will write about the events ...

Since Donald Trump returned to office, his administration has been working to put the names of various Confederates who tried to destroy the United States to preserve slavery back in positions of ...

HARRISON, Ohio – Ryan Grubbs’ phone started ringing a few days after Christmas, while he stood in his kitchen making chicken soup for his sick wife. Grubbs, who was less than a week away from being ...

FRANKLIN, Tenn. (WKRN) — Williamson County’s seal may soon see a change. On Tuesday, a Davidson County Chancellor ruled that the seal, which currently features a Confederate flag draped over a cannon, ...