Tag: confederate flag

  COLORADO SPRINGS — An arson charge was dropped today against Patricia Cameron, the Black Lives Matter activist from Manitou Springs who participated in a...

You know the flag -- the one that has waved as government officials in the U.S. have built the country on the backs of...

Right side The momentous Supreme Court rulings show how quickly America seems to be moving, and Politico asks whether the GOP can keep up. Every...

Fresh blood E.J. Dionne argues in The Washington Post that those looking for an answer to gun violence need to find new arguments. He proposes that the...

“If he was black, he’d be dead. You better believe it,” Denver civil rights activist Virgil Robinson said about Dylann Roof — the young...

New targets The Confederate flag issue has been raised and re-raised. The question now is whether the conversation turns to guns. David Frum writes in...

It's not the end of racism, any more that electing and re-electing Barack Obama was the end of racism. But it might just be the end of pretending that racism doesn't exist, the end of pretending that somehow talking about race is the real racism, the end of the idea that all we have to do to end racial discrimination is just announce that we'll stop discriminating.

Capture the flag You remember Rand Paul's right-wing-radio-hosting buddy, The Southern Avenger? He writes in The Daily Beast: I was wrong about the Confederate flag....

American swastika Sally Jenkins, a Washington Post sports columnist, daughter of the South, student of the Civil War, tells us what the Confederate battle flag...

This was a day for grieving and sorrow and reflection -- and for counting the number of times Barack Obama has addressed the country...