A segregation-era flag bearing the Confederate battle emblem was changed in 2001 and then again in 2004 amid strong debate and disagreement. Georgia’s official state flag is actually the third ...

A rundown of the flag debate requires a brief refresher in Georgia history. The Confederate battle emblem stamped on Georgia’s flag doesn’t date to the Civil War era, but to February 1956.

Georgia legislators first dealt with the state's Confederate flag issue in 2001, and settled it by nonbinding referendum in 2003. But some paid for the sin of changing the flag in 2001. Political ...

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 Legislature voted Friday to change the state flag to a version that echoes the Confederate ... which was first added to Georgia’s flag in 1956 when an all-white Legislature was ...

After months of debating Georgia's flag, state lawmakers struck a surprise compromise Friday — an entirely new flag that echoes an old Confederate flag but does not include the divisive Dixie ...

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 voters will still get a referendum next year — to pick between the new three-stripe flag and the 2001 flag. Few give the 2001 flag any chance to win.

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 ...

Georgia-state-flag-burning-protest participant and now gubernatorial candidate Stacey Abrams made two giant mistakes in her life. The first mistake was that she didn’t invite the rest of us to ...

The Georgia Senate voted Tuesday to give the state its third flag in just over two years, but not before fixing typos in the bill that could lead to the legislation's defeat.