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A federal judge has delayed the trial for a white man accused of shooting nine black people at a Charleston church earlier this year.

Vester Lee Flanagan, who is known professionally as Bryce Williams, has been identified as the suspect by the Augusta County Sheriff’s office. In the document, he addressed suspected Charleston shooter Dylann Roof and accepted his challenge for a “race war”.

CHARLESTON, South Carolina -A federal judge entered not guilty pleas Friday on charges against Dylann Roof, the 21-year-old white man accused of killing nine African-American parishioners at the historic Emanuel African Methodist Episcopal (AME) church in Charleston, South...

“I don’t believe it represents racism because I’m not racist”. They brought their own flags to fly in the parking lot outside the building. However, the expanse of companies who apologized and re-evaluated their inclusion of the Confederate flag does not...

COLUMBIA, S.C. – The Confederate flag was lowered from the grounds of the South Carolina Statehouse today, ending its 54-year presence there and marking a stunning political reversal in a state where many thought the rebel banner would fly indefinitely.

Now, the organizations that had imposed economic boycotts on South Carolina for flying the flag are reevaluating their stance on the state after its removal.

South Carolina Gov. Nikki Haley signed a bill on Wednesday which requires the Confederate flag to be removed from the state capitol. That sparked a nationwide debate about the flag’s place in American culture. That forgiveness and grace set off another action: an action of...

Ms Haley said the flag will be brought “down with dignity and put it in its rightful place”. Then, photos surfaced of the suspect, Dylann Roof, posing with Confederate flags and other Civil War symbols, and burning an American flag. They agreed then to move it to a...

Gov. Nikki Haley will sign the bill into law at 4 p.m. Thursday.

Consumer Products, which ended production of die-cast replicas and vehicle model kits of the 1969 Dodge Charger – “The General Lee” – with a Confederate flag on its roof that was famous on “Dukes“. The move comes in the wake of the nationwide...