Monday, 29 June 2015 00:00
'This flag comes down today': Black activist arrested for scaling flagpole and removing Confederate flag from South Carolina's Capitol - but state workers raise it again
Early on Saturday morning a black activist took matters into her own hands by scaling the flagpole at South Carolina's Capitol in Columbia and taking down the Confederate flag by herself.
The woman, Bree Newsome, 30, was about halfway up the more than 30-foot steel flagpole in front of the Statehouse just after dawn Saturday when State Capitol police told her to come down. Instead, she continued up and removed the flag before returning to the ground.
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Saturday, 27 June 2015 00:00
'We need co-conspirators, not allies': how white Americans can fight racism
Some white people may be sitting on the sidelines out of discomfort over making faux pas – but they may need to get over that anxiety to help defeat injustice
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