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For a brief while on Tuesday, the controversial Confederate Battle Flag was back on a flagpole on the South Carolina Statehouse grounds.

Please reserve judgment. That's HBO's message to viewers who are already taking to social media to protest its new show, 'Confederate.'

The Southern Baptist Convention approved a resolution this week urging Christians to stop displaying the Confederate battle flag.

A new poll released this week shows a majority of South Carolinians feel the removal of the Confederate flag last summer was the right thing to do. On a July evening last year, South Carolina lawmakers debated into the night about a plan to finally remove the Confederate Flag from...

Here are some random links I ran across this week that I hope you'll enjoy. Let's begin. 1. A Swim with a View This won't be your grandfather's swimming hole. The luxury apartment complex Embassy Gardens in London is planning the world's first “Sky Pool.” The pool will allow residents...

South Carolina Gov. Nikki Haley said Christian grace and forgiveness started a series of actions that will ultimately bring down the Confederate flag Friday morning. On Thursday afternoon, South Carolina Gov. Nikki Haley signed a hotly-contested bill that will remove the Confederate flag from its position behind a Confederate monument...

The Confederate flag is almost certain to come down from South Carolina’s State House grounds. But where does the flag flap end? What’s the line between removing a symbol of hate and rewriting history? The South Carolina General Assembly this week passed a bill that would remove the Confederate flag...

On this Independence Day, a large segment of the population — particularly in my home state of South Carolina — is focused on the ongoing flag flap.

I've been doing this blog now for more than 11 years. I started my first job in television 24 years ago. But the first time I ever became a truly "published" writer was about 32 years ago. That's when I was in seventh grade and given the assignment to write...

The president of the NAACP urged South Carolina’s governor to remove the Confederate battle flag from the statehouse grounds, using the governor’s own heritage as a leverage point. Benjamin Jealous told members at the group’s annual convention that “one of the most perplexing examples of the contradictions of this moment...

State Senator Robert Ford stepped up to the microphone in the South Carolina Senate Thursday with a Confederate flag, challenging blacks to take part in celebrating the 150th anniversary of the Civil War. I am not making this up. South Carolinians, he says, should get used to seeing plenty of...

The Palmetto State is gearing up for roughly six months of celebration to commemorate the 150th anniversary of South Carolina’s secession from the Union, the first in a series of steps that led our nation into the Civil War. And so begins half a year of pointless arguing and rehashing...

Last week, the plug was pulled on Myrtle Beach. The Atlantic Coast Conference canceled its plan to place the 2010 ACC baseball tournement there because of the Confederate flag that still flies on the statehouse grounds in Columbia. And the story affectionately known as the “flag flap” keeps flapping on. Myrtle...