Critics say UNLV mascot Hey Reb looks like a Confederate soldier. The school president says it was not meant to be a reference to the Confederacy. Isaac Brekken AP CARSON CITY, Nev. UNLV is keeping ...

OXFORD, Miss. (AP) — Mississippi will sideline its Colonel Rebel mascot this football season, taking another step to distance itself from the South's Confederate past. Ole Miss officials have said ...

After many years of complaints about the racial insensitivity of having a man dressed as a Confederate soldier as the symbol of a university where 14 percent of students are black, Ole Miss is pulling ...

With controversies over mascots—deemed racist by many--Douglas Freeman High School made the decision to change from the Rebels, a nickname for Confederate soldiers during the Civil War. This icon has ...

(Edgefield-AP) -- A compromise to keep Strom Thurmond High School's Rebel nickname but drop the old Southern aristocrat mascot may be challenged in court.Strom Thurmond High graduate Nora Korrek ...