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The Confederate flag was not commonly used by country artists until the late 1960s and through the ’70s and ’80s, when it was adopted by some Southern country and rock artists who identified as outlaw musicians appealing to blue-collar fans, Oermann said. “You...

Thousands gathered at the State House in Columbia to cheer the removal of the red, white and blue Civil War-era battle flag, regarded by many as a bitter symbol of racism and slavery that has no place in modern America.

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“Why can’t we move to the 21st century?” Clementa Pinckney, perished in the shootings on June 17. Barton, 52, a pastor who also was at the ceremony in 2000.

The decision comes nearly a month after Dylann Roof allegedly shot and killed nine people at Emanuel African Methodist Episcopal Church in downtown Charleston.

The flag is coming down 23 days after the massacre of state Sen.

South Carolina Governor Nikki Haley yesterday signed into law a bill to retire the Confederate flag from the grounds of the state capitol.

The Republican governor has called for the flag’s removal. That design lasted only until 2003, when Barnes lost re-election and his Republican successor signed a bill into law restoring the stars and bars-inspired design. The flag resembles the Southern Cross design but is...

The dispute in Congress over the Confederate flag threatened on Friday to upend House Republican plans to move forward on routine spending legislation, amid concerns that Democrats could hijack the bills to debate the flag.

Other Chicagoans watched the flag come down while eating breakfast at the iconic Valois Restaurant. Governor Nikki Haley said the flag will be put in its rightful place in a museum.

The Republican-controlled House scrapped a vote on permitting the Confederate flag at Park Service-run cemeteries on Thursday, a retreat under fire that only escalated a ferocious attack by Democrats complaining the banner celebrates a murderous, racist past.

The Confederate flag, a symbol of America’s battlefield history, but for many, a symbol of a bitter and deeply rooted racism, has been removed from South Carolina’s state Capitol.

The flag will be displayed at the Confederate Relic Room and Military Museum roughly a mile down Gervais Street.

It should get to Gov. Nikki Haley’s desk before the end of the day.

South Carolina Gov. Nikki Haley signed a bill on Wednesday which requires the Confederate flag to be removed from the state capitol. That sparked a nationwide debate about the flag’s place in American culture. That forgiveness and grace set off another action: an action of...