A new state flag without the Confederate emblem (search) was raised over the Capitol on Thursday after a redesign aimed at laying to rest a dispute that inflamed race relations and roiled Georgia ...

The 1956 flag: The Georgia state flag was changed Feb. 13, 1956, incorporating a Confederate battle emblem into the design, as a response to the Supreme Court rulings on desegregating schools.

The brief-flying state flag was a compromise intended to shrink the Confederate emblem but incorporate the symbol in a mini-montage of old Georgia flags. The result was what many considered a ...

Like the flag that flew over Georgia before 1956, it will include the state seal on a blue field. Unlike any other Georgia flag, it will have the motto "In God We Trust." ...

The Georgia Senate, exhorted by the governor to "seek the salve of reconciliation," voted 34-22 on Tuesday to reduce the Confederate fighting banner on the state flag to a miniature symbol.

A decades-old news article about Georgia gubernatorial candidate Stacey Abrams (D) burning the state flag, which at the time included the Confederate battle flag, resurfaced on Monday. Abrams ...

The governor ordered flags fly at half staff for Friday at the Georgia State Capitol building in an executive order released ...

A new state flag without the Confederate emblem was raised over the Capitol on Thursday after a redesign aimed at laying to rest a dispute that inflamed race relations and roiled Georgia politics.

Georgia-state-flag-burning-protest participant and now gubernatorial candidate Stacey Abrams should stand proud that her 1992 protest helped make the flag of Georgia one that no longer celebrates ...

Stacey Abrams, the Democrat who could be the first black woman to win a governor's seat in U.S. history, admitted Monday that she burned the state flag on the steps of the Georgia Capitol in 1992.

CUMMING, Ga. — It took months of political wrangling to produce Georgia’s spanking-new state flag -- its third in two years -- but those efforts left George Mounger unimpressed.