A Crime of Hate, a City in Mourning, and a Flag That Still Flies

The Brian Lehrer Show | Jun 19, 2015

Jamil Smith, senior editor at The New Republic, discusses the mass shooting at the Emanuel African Methodist Episcopal Church in Charleston, South Carolina, which left nine people dead and a 21-year-old white male in police custody facing hate crime charges.

Then, Robert Chase, a professor of history at Stony Brook University and a former public historian for the Avery Research Center for African American History and Culture at the College of Charleston, continues the discussion by explaining the historical significance of the church - and the Confederate flag - for the black community in Charleston and throughout the South.

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