On June 27, 2015, ten days after a white supremacist shot and killed nine Black citizens in a Charleston, S.C. church, Oakland Mills High School alumna Bree Newsome Bass climbed up the flagpole at the State Capitol in Columbia, S.C. and removed the Confederate flag flying at the top. It is obvious that such a symbol - one representing a failed nation whose existence was predicated on slavery and the oppression of Black citizens - has no place in the United States. That the flag was deemed wor...