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Topic: Bree Newsome

Maxine Waters; Brittany "Bree" Newsome; Therese Okoumou; Ieshia Evans (AP/Getty)

Black women are the resistance

Rachel Leah
City workers drape a tarp over the statue of Confederate General Robert E. Lee in Emancipation park in Charlottesville, Va. (AP/Steve Helber)

Different states, different responses

Lauryn Higgins, Nick Lingerfelt - Salon Young Americans
Ava Duvernay

Asha Parker
A Confederate flag flies at the base of Stone Mountain Tuesday, June 30, 2015, in Stone Mountain, Ga. (AP Photo/David Goldman) (AP)

"This flag comes down today!"

Ericka Schiche
Bree Newsome removes the Confederate flag at a Confederate monument at the Statehouse in Columbia, S.C., June, 27, 2015. (AP/Bruce Smith/<a href='http://www.shutterstock.com/gallery-763222p1.html'>photowings</a> via <a href='http://www.shutterstock.com/'>Shutterstock</a>/Photo montage by Salon)

A July 4 worth celebrating

Joan Walsh