“The flag has been adopted knowingly and consciously by government officials seeking to assert their commitment to black subordination.” The decision in South Carolina didn’t attract much ...

Four years ago, I became a national news story after I hung a Confederate flag in my dorm room window at the University of South Carolina Beaufort. Controversy wasn’t my intention. For me and ...

The flag was originally flown in response to the civil rights movement. — -- The shooting of nine black parishioners at a historically black church in Charleston, South Carolina, on Wednesday ...

They handed it to a black trooper who brought it to the ... President Barack Obama tweeted minutes after the flag was down: South Carolina taking down the confederate flag - a signal of good ...

The racially divisive Confederate battle flag flew at full-mast despite others flying at half-staff in South Carolina after the killing of nine black people in an historic African-American church ...

Among them was William Ray III, the 20-year-old president of the Black Student Alliance at Wake Forest University in North Carolina. The Confederate flag’s removal is “historical, of course ...

COLUMBIA, S.C.-- South Carolina lawmakers on Monday began debating whether to bring the Confederate flag down outside the Capitol, starting with a pair of senators - one white, one black - whose ...

As a white woman who still flies the flag in a historically black South Carolina neighborhood put it, it’s about “family history.“ But the flag’s meaning was never really innocuous.

A 2014 Winthrop University poll found that 61 percent of black South Carolina residents said the flag should no longer fly on the state house grounds, The Post’s Aaron Blake reported last week.

A strong push to remove the Confederate battle flag from Capitol grounds in South Carolina and Alabama ... of nine people inside a historic black church last week. Long a controversial symbol ...

After the attack on the historic black church, pictures emerged of the main suspect Dylann Roof waving the flag while posing with a gun. Nikki Haley, the governor of South Carolina, has called for ...