The controversial display of a Confederate flag at a Long Island St. Patrick’s Day Parade Sunday has sparked outrage, drawing ...

Three Long Island fire departments that displayed the Confederate flag have now reached a settlement over alleged ...

Video footage, captured by parade attendee Maria Scorcia, shows the trucks driving through the parade with Confederate flags displayed.

The Brookhaven, Levittown and Holbrook fire districts and departments agreed to pay civil fines of $28,000 related to ...

Displaying the flag "damages public trust and harms communities," said the Division of Human Rights Acting Commissioner.

Three Long Island fire departments settle over Confederate flag displays and discrimination, agree to fines and human rights ...

A Confederate flag was flown from a truck in the 35th annual Bayport Blue Point St. Patrick’s Day Parade on Sunday, Bayport Blue Point Chamber of Commerce president Karl Auwaerter confirmed in an ...

The fines were part of settlements of complaints originally filed in 2021 against fire districts and departments from ...

In a news release Monday, the agency said Brookhaven and Levittown fire departments and districts had displayed the Confederate flag, a historic symbol of the pro-slavery South, on department ...

The complaints, originally filed in 2021, alleged that the Brookhaven and Levittown Fire Departments displayed Confederate flags on department property, violating the New York State Human Rights Law.

Three Long Island fire departments that displayed the Confederate flag have now reached a settlement over alleged ...