A Confederate battle flag hung inside the old North Carolina State Capitol last week to mark the sesquicentennial of the Civil War is being taken down after civil rights leaders raised concerns.

The North Carolina Division of Motor Vehicles will no longer issue or renew specialty plates bearing the Confederate symbol or any version of it, effective Jan. 1, 2021.

It also contains a bust of Confederate Gen. Robert E. Lee, along with the words "in appreciation of our faithful slaves" on a separate panel, according to the University of North Carolina library ...

The Kappa Alpha chapter at North Carolina’s Wake Forest University stopped allowing members to wear Confederate uniform and display the Confederate flag in 1987. But other chapters held on longer.

North Carolina will no longer issue or renew specialty license plates that feature the Confederate battle flag following complaints that the image was offensive, the state's DMV officials said.

Today, there are about 100 Confederate monuments in North Carolina, five on the Capitol grounds in Raleigh. There are no monuments to the slaves that built our state.

Police stand guard after the Confederate statue known as Silent Sam was toppled by protesters at the University of North Carolina in Chapel Hill, N.C., on Aug. 20.

North Carolina will no longer allow specialty license plates depicting the Confederate battle flag, citing the symbol’s “potential to offend.”. At the start of 2021, the state’s Division ...

Residents of a small county in North Carolina filed a federal lawsuit Tuesday to have a Confederate-era monument to “faithful slaves” removed from outside the county courthouse.

The North Carolina chapter of the Sons of Confederate Veterans did not immediately return messages for comment. A Black Lives Matter billboard is seen next to a Confederate flag in Pittsboro, N.C ...

The North Carolina Division of Motor Vehicles said this week that it will stop issuing and renewing license plates that bear the Confederate flag. Under the new policy, which took effect at the ...