Activists urge South Carolina capitol to take down rebel flag after massacre

[Yahoo! News]

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South Carolina should remove the Confederate battle flag from the state capitol grounds, religious and local elected leaders urged on Monday, after a white gunman last week allegedly shot dead nine black worshippers at a historic Charleston church. The demand for lawmakers to remove the rallying symbol of the pro-slavery South during the U.S. Civil War follows revelations that 21-year-old Dylann Roof, charged with Wednesday's attack on the Emanuel African Methodist Episcopal Church, had posted a racist manifesto on the Internet and posed with the flag. A group of black and white leaders called for a rally Tuesday at the State House in Columbia to bring their demand directly to lawmakers.

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