Confederate Flag News

After spending the weekend stoking division, President Donald Trump upped the ante today by defending the Confederate flag and bashing NASCAR and driver, Bubba Wallace.

Tupelo - A Mississippi man, upset that Walmart no longer sells Confederate flags, allegedly tossed a bomb inside one of the big box stores in Tupelo, early Sunday. Marshall W. Leonard, 61, was charged on Tuesday afternoon with planting an explosive device.

All of this talk about the Confederate flag and the evils attached to it has well-meaning folks, and otherwise, running around with their hair on fire. It also provides a chance to marvel at the sideshows attached to this three-ring political circus.

Columbia - The Loyal White Knights of the Ku Klux Klan tout themselves as being the largest Klan group in the U.S., but they won't be impressing anyone in Columbia S.C. today.

Barnegat - I grew up in the South. South Jersey, that is; but South Jersey in the 1970s was sometimes indistinguishable from below the Mason-Dixon line.

Over the past weekend, over a dozen trucks paraded down Atlantic Avenue in Virginia Beach with Confederate flags flying from their truck beds, and the drivers yelling racial slurs. At the same time, the KKK was planning a rally in South Carolina.

Slidell - A man went to a Walmart store and was able to get an ISIS cake made, but at another Walmart store, they refused to make a Confederate flag cake.

Early Saturday morning, the Confederate flag in front of the South Carolina Statehouse was removed by a 30-year-old woman.

Gov. Nikki Haley, as well as U.S. Sen. Lindsey Graham, have advocated for the removal of the Confederate flag that flies from a pole in front of the South Carolina capitol. They blame this flag on the hatred that caused nine people to die.

Washington - Arch-conservative Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas joined his liberal colleagues in a rejecting a claim that Texas violated the First Amendment by refusing to allow license plates emblazoned with the pro-slavery Confederate flag.

Austin - On Monday, 23 March, the U.S. Supreme Court heard a free-speech challenge to the decision by the state of Texas to refuse a proposal by the Sons of Confederate Veterans (SCV) for state-issued license plates featuring the Confederate battle flag.

Goodyear - An 11th grader at Millennium High School in Arizona says school officials are violating his rights by banning him from school.

Seattle - So, if anything Kanye West did shocked us anymore, we might be surprised to learn he's selling merchandise with the United States Confederate Flag on it. Am I shocked? Appalled? Nope.

At Hays High School in Texas, Confederate flags used to fly from the stands at football games, but now the flag has now been banned.

A Tennessee teen was kicked out of her high school prom when she showed up in a custom-made dress resembling the controversial Confederate battle flag.

Beaufort - A 19-year-old college student has received complaints after hanging a Confederate flag from his dorm room window. The student, who is black, says that he views the flag as a symbol of Southern pride, not racism.

Jackson - Battle lines have been drawn in Mississippi as the debate heats up over the proposal by the Sons of Confederate Veterans to issue five commemorative Civil War-themed license plates, one of which will honor Confederate General Nathan Bedford Forrest.

Annie Chambers Caddell, whose ancestors fought in the Civil War, insists the Confederate flag flying over her Summersville, South Carolina home is an important reminder of her heritage and that she is not a racist or trying to create a rift in her town.

Three students have been banned from their commencement ceremony because they flew a Confederate flag in a public high school parking lot.

United States Vice President Dick Cheney is under fire for a hunting trip on Monday at a secluded gun club in Hudson Valley. A New York Daily News Photographer snapped a picture of the Confederate flag hanging inside the gun club’s garage.

Democratic presidential candidate Hillary Rodham Clinton said Monday that South Carolina should remove the Confederate flag from its Statehouse grounds