Confederate Flag

CROSBY, Minn. (AP) — A northern Minnesota student suspended for refusing to remove a Confederate flag from his vehicle is back in school and will graduate with his class on Friday.

The Confederate flag reflects slavery and other Civil War causes. Slaveholders and non-slaveholders fought for both the Confederacy and Union. Lincoln said if he could save the Union by either maintaining or abolishing slavery, he would. Lincoln’s belated Emancipation Proclamation freed slaves where he couldn’t (the deep South), and didn’t where he could (Maryland, Delaware, Missouri, Kentucky, Wa

HARTLAND, Minn. (AP) — A Minnesota firefighter is defending his decision to fly a Confederate flag during a holiday parade.

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The racist-terrorist who killed 9 exemplary members of the Black congregation in Charleston deserves the death penalty if an insanity plea doesn’t spare him. But banning the Confederate flag is a ludicrous response.

Charleston, SC (AP) - South Carolina Gov. Nikki Haley, after the massacre of nine African-Americans at a historic black church in Charleston, has called for the removal of the rebel Confederate battle flag that stands outside South Carolina's Statehouse.