COMING DOWN?

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South Carolina house has voted 103-10 to allow for a special session to discuss removing Confederate flag.

The state senate now takes up this issue. One of its members and the Emanuel African Methodist Episcopal Church's pastor and state senator, Rev. Clementa Pinckney, was among those killed last Wednesday.

The Complicated Political History Of The Confederate Flag http://n.pr/1RqWGpp

CNN: Walmart, Sears, eBay to stop selling Confederate flag merchandise http://cnn.it/1TIS2am

Taking down the Confederate flag isn't a question of manners—it's a matter of history, writes Ta-Nehisi Coates: http://www.theatlantic.com/politics/archive/2015/06/what-this-cruel-war…