Tag: South Carolina

Black GOP senator: That flag represents ‘provocative history’ and ‘pain and oppression’

Black GOP senator: That flag represents ‘provocative history’ and ‘pain and oppression’

Barbara Boland · June 21, 2015 8:05 pm

S.C. Dem: Remove the Confederate ‘flag of rebellion’

S.C. Dem: Remove the Confederate ‘flag of rebellion’

Barbara Boland · June 21, 2015 4:17 pm

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Charleston mayor: ‘The heartache is indescribable’

Barbara Boland · June 21, 2015 3:46 pm

Confederate flag removal a minefield for GOP candidates

Confederate flag removal a minefield for GOP candidates

David M. Drucker · June 21, 2015 3:04 pm

The Confederate flag flies near the South Carolina Statehouse, Friday, June 19, 2015, in Columbia, S.C. Tensions over the Confederate flag flying in the shadow of South Carolina's Capitol rose this week in the wake of the killings of nine people at a black church in Charleston, S.C. (AP Photo/Rainier Ehrhardt)

Will South Carolina Republicans save their party and take down the Confederate flag?

David M. Drucker · June 21, 2015 9:00 am

Republican presidential candidate Sen. Lindsey Graham, R-S.C., right, and Sen. Tim Scott, R-S.C., left, attend a memorial service for the victims of the shooting at Emanuel AME Church, Friday, June 19, 2015, in Charleston, S.C. (AP Photo/David Goldman)

Lindsey Graham: ‘No doubt’ Charleston shooting was racially motivated

David M. Drucker · June 21, 2015 2:46 am

The South Carolina and American flags fly at half mast as the Confederate flag unfurls below at the Confederate Monument June 18, 2015 in Columbia, South Carolina. Legislators gathered Thursday morning to honor their co-worker Clementa Pinckney and the eight others killed yesterday at Emanuel AME Church in Charleston, S.C. (Photo by Sean Rayford/Getty Images)

Media spins horrific murder into a fight over a flag

Becket Adams · June 20, 2015 11:00 am

White House deputy press secretary Eric Schultz speaks during the daily news briefing at the White House in Washington, Friday, May 15, 2015. (AP Photo/Carolyn Kaster)

Here’s where Obama wants to see the Confederate flag

Nicole Duran · June 19, 2015 10:06 pm

Rick Perry meant to call the Charleston shooting an ‘incident,’ not an ‘accident’

Rick Perry meant to call the Charleston shooting an ‘incident,’ not an ‘accident’

Becket Adams · June 19, 2015 8:00 pm

Dylann Roof appears via video before a judge in North Charleston, S.C, on Friday, June 19, 2015. The 21-year-old man accused of killing nine people inside a black church in Charleston made his first court appearance Friday, with the relatives of all the victims making tearful statements. (Centralized Bond Hearing Court, of Charleston, S.C. via AP, Pool)

Victims’ families to Dylann Roof: We ‘forgive you’

Kelly Cohen · June 19, 2015 7:25 pm

"He needs to know exactly what is expected, because this right now is a walk in the park. It's going to become more intense, and Dr. Carson has to show that he has the fortitude, he has the courage and the character to withstand all this scrutiny."Â (AP file photo/Pablo Martinez Monsivais)

Carson: ‘The majority of Americans actually have common sense’

Ariel Cohen · June 19, 2015 6:20 pm

O’Malley: ‘I’m Pissed’

O’Malley: ‘I’m Pissed’

Daniel Halper · June 19, 2015 5:19 pm