I have never eaten at Maurice’s Piggie Park Barbecue in South Carolina. I refused to buy their BBQ products which proliferated on store shelves. For you Carolina newcomers, back in 2000 the Confederate flag controversy raged in South Carolina. This was long before Bree Newsome climbed atop a flag pole and earned national attention for […]
9/23/16- Jacque Reid talks to Bree Newsome, the woman who scaled the pole in Columbia, SC to take down the Confederate flag. She lives in North Carolina and works as a field organizer for a local organization helping undeserved communities in the Charlotte area. “Right in the wake of police brutality, the first reaction that […]
Much has changed, but a lot has stayed the same since tragedy unfolded a year ago at "Mother" Emanuel African Methodist Episcopal Church in Charleston, South Carolina.
Loretta Lynch's confirmation as attorney general was a pivotal moment in American history.
When Bree Newsome removed the Confederate flag from a flagpole in South Carolina, it was the duty of an activist who was tired of the rhetoric…
There are many Americans in this day and age that have no clue about history, nor do they understand the realities that have shaped American…
As thousands cheered, chanted and sang, the flag came down from the statehouse for good.
Days after 30-year-old community organizer Brittany “Bree” Newsome scaled a 30-foot pole to remove the Confederate flag from the South Carolina Statehouse grounds, the nation…
The Internet basically said, "YAS GIRL, YAS!"
Tensions have just about reached their peak surrounding the removal of the Confederate flag from the South Carolina statehouse in light of the recent Emmanuel…
