*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 ...

Just 30 or so people attended the 1992 protest on the steps of Georgia's State Capitol - a smattering of student activists but mostly reporters and a few Georgia Bureau of Investigation agents, ...

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.

BRUNSWICK, Ga. (AP) — Police near Georgia’s coast are investigating the thefts of 70 Confederate flags from the graves of soldiers who fought in the American Civil War. The Florida Times-Union reports ...

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 ...

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 ...