Bree Newsome

On Wednesday, a Black Lives Matter activist was arrested after diving over a police barrier to grab a Confederate flag away from a protester.

When Kezia M. Williams took a trip to Columbia, South Carolina, she didn’t expect to find herself in the middle of a Confederate flag celebration outside of the Statehouse…

theGRIO REPORT – “No flagging right here.” Those four words in a video posted to Facebook Saturday have spread all over social media and attracted nearly five million views.”No flagging right here.” The video shows a young black man getting out of a car and running across a property to remove a Confederate flag…

theGRIO REPORT – Bree Newsome, the woman who has been called a “superhero” for taking down the Confederate flag from the South Carolina statehouse, is now speaking out.

theGrio REPORT – Rev. Dr. William J. Barber II, president of the North Carolina chapter of the NAACP, compared Bree Newsome, the woman who took down the Confederate flag at the South Carolina statehouse, to Rosa Parks.