Full Coverage: Confederate flag controversy

In the predawn hours Friday, Brenda Bowden, a retired middle school teacher, packed up her sun hat, digital camera and cooler and left her suburban golf community in Fort Mill, S.C., for the state capital.

For hour after tedious hour, the South Carolina House of Representatives debated whether to remove a Confederate battle flag from state grounds.

During a historic debate, South Carolina lawmakers in the House of Representatives argued whether to remove the Confederate flag from the Statehouse grounds.

Republicans in Congress stumbled into the Confederate flag debate Thursday after Southern lawmakers protested a proposal to put new restrictions on displaying the banner on federal parklands, launching the party into a conversation many leaders would have preferred to avoid.

An enduring icon of the Confederacy is beginning to disappear.

The South Carolina House of Representatives approved removing the Confederate battle flag from the Statehouse grounds and placing it in a museum after a contentious debate that stretched into Thursday.

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Three weeks after nine parishioners were slain at a black church in Charleston, South Carolina’s Senate overwhelmingly gave final approval Tuesday to a bill to remove the Confederate battle flag from the Statehouse grounds.

South Carolina senators on Monday took a landmark step toward removing the Confederate battle flag from Statehouse grounds, approving bipartisan legislation by an overwhelming 37-3 vote, but only after a long debate about whether such symbols glorify racism or represent heritage.

Bryan Stevenson was driving to a jailhouse meeting in the morning gloom, through stands of loblolly pines and sweet gum trees, when he spotted the mammoth Confederate flag unfurled along Interstate 65, near a town called Clanton.

NASCAR hasn’t banned the Confederate flag, but its tracks have united in requesting that race fans not display the controversial banner.

A young black woman scaled a flagpole in front of the South Carolina Statehouse just after dawn Saturday and took down the Confederate battle flag that has become the focus of controversy since a gunman killed nine African Americans inside a historic Charleston church.

A day after changing its policy on the Confederate battle flag, EBay has begun targeting and removing such items from the online auction site.

Two white horses on Wednesday carried Clementa Pinckney, the revered South Carolina state senator and pastor who was killed alongside eight members of his Charleston church, to the Statehouse building Wednesday, passing the Confederate flag that has sparked national debate about Civil War symbols in the South.

The email came with a simple subject line: Our Flag.

Yes, the Confederate battle flag that flies over the grounds of the state Capitol in Columbia, S.C., should be taken down and sent to a museum.

Hillary Rodham Clinton on Tuesday praised Wal-Mart and other retailers for refusing to sell products bearing the Confederate flag, as she pushed for a broader conversation about modern-day, institutionalized racism and policies to address it.

South Carolina lawmakers took their first steps Tuesday to remove the Confederate battle flag from the Statehouse grounds amid a growing controversy over whether such symbols are racist or just a celebration of heritage.

A growing number of retailers are halting sales of the Confederate flag and related merchandise in reaction to its image as a symbol of racial hate, burnished by photos of the man accused of gunning down nine African Americans in a Charleston, S.C., church.

About the only welcome news to come out of the tragedy at Charleston’s Emanuel African Methodist Episcopal Church last week is the movement to force South Carolina to remove the Confederate flag from its place of honor on the grounds of the state Capitol (which The Times’ editorial board endorses).

Since its first display as a show of defiance during the civil rights era, the placement of a Confederate battle flag on the Capitol grounds in South Carolina has divided the state’s Democrats and Republicans, blacks and whites.

For those who romanticize the Old South, the red, white and blue crossed bars of the Confederate battle flag symbolize a lost way of life, framed in a nostalgia for a time that was, supposedly, one of honor and pride and glory.

John Oliver railed against the Confederate flag in the wake of Wednesday’s shooting at Charleston’s historic Emanuel AME Church and questioned the South’s need to fly the “bad flag” at all.

Republican presidential candidates continued to struggle Sunday over how to respond to last week’s mass shooting of nine black parishioners at a historic Charleston, S.C., church, particularly over the issue of whether the state should remove the Confederate battle flag from its Capitol.

In the hours after a gunman entered a Charleston church and shot nine black people to death, South Carolina Gov.