Georgia's new state flag flies above the capitol and downtown skyline on Thursday afternoon after Gov. Sonny Perdue signed it into law at a morning press By Nancy Badertscher Jan 13, 2016 ...

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 ...

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.

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 ...

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. The ...

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." ...

ATLANTA, May 8 -- A new state flag without the Confederate emblem was raised over the Capitol today after a redesign aimed at laying to rest a dispute that inflamed race relations and roiled ...

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.