*When S tacey Abrams was a student at Spelman College, the Georgia state flag still had the Confederate emblem in its design. So she exercised her First Amendment rights by helping to burn it in ...

Georgia Gov. Sonny Perdue proposes a referendum on whether the Confederate battle emblem should be part of the state flag. Perdue, a Republican, says the vote will be a healing process for a state ...

Gov. Sonny Perdue signed a bill Thursday to replace the unpopular state flag with a simpler design that does not include a Confederate battle emblem. The new flag, which went up over the Capitol soon ...

The Democratic candidate to be Georgia's next governor explained her presence Tuesday at a 1992 protest that included a burning of the state flag as part of her opposition to Confederate symbolism.

ATLANTA — At a protest on the steps of the Georgia Capitol in 1992, Stacey Abrams, now the Democratic candidate for governor, joined in the burning of the state flag, which at the time incorporated ...

Reporter Greg Bluestein contributed to this report. The state of Georgia has released a new specialty license tag that features the Confederate battle flag, inflaming civil rights advocates and ...

Mississippi has used the Confederate emblem in its flag since 1894, when white supremacists in state government adopted it after Reconstruction. Georgia put a large Confederate battle symbol on its ...