Late last month, as the nation engaged in heated discourse about the history and implications of the Confederate battle flag, a 30-year-old activist, filmmaker, and songwriter named Bree Newsome scaled a 30-foot flagpole on the grounds of the South Carolina Capitol and physically removed the very flag legislators inside were discussing. Her act was decisive and swift, temporarily putting an end to the debate, nearly two weeks before the state officially took down the flag.
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