South Carolina Senate votes to remove Confederate flag
Confederate flag "has more to do with what was going on in the 1960s as opposed to the 1860s," says one GOP senator
Confederate flag "has more to do with what was going on in the 1960s as opposed to the 1860s," says one GOP senator
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Survey among lawmakers indicates support for removing flag but there are powerful Republicans who have not said how they'll vote
Lawmakers in South Carolina are preparing to decide whether to keep the Confederate flag flying on the statehouse grounds. CBS News' Omar Villafranca joins CBSN to discuss.
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No word on whether S.C. blaze is case of arson on stormy, lightning-filled night; same church was burned to ground by Ku Klux Klan in 1995
The Confederate flag is no longer flying over Fort Sumter, South Carolina, where Southerners fired the first shots of the Civil War. Legislators may be ready to do the same at the statehouse, where one person faces charges after supporters and opponents of the revel flag slugged it out Monday. Every day the flag continues to fly, emotions on both sides of the issue run higher. Michelle Miller reports from Emanuel AME Church in Charleston.
In the shadow of the statehouse in Columbia, there was a brawl between people for and against the controversial banner
Opposing groups faced off outside of the South Carolina state house over flying the Confederate flag. CBSN's Jeff Glor has more on the confrontation
National outcry for the removal of the flag has been reignited since nine black churchgoers were killed earlier this month
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Historian Janus Adams, Washington Post national reporter Wesley Lowery and former managing editor of Ebony Magazine Wendy Wilson weigh in on President Obama's eulogy, the Confederate flag and the national dialogue about race relations.
Rep. Elijah Cummings, D-Maryland, says it’s important to take down the Confederate flag, but many things still need to be done to repair race relations in the United States.
A woman did what many have wanted to do: She climbed a flagpole and took down the Confederate flag that flies in front of the South Carolina Statehouse. Michelle Miller reports on this act of defiance.
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