On June 27, 2015, Bree Newsome strapped on her climbing gear, climbed a flagpole over South Carolina’s State House, and removed its Confederate flag. It seemed liked a spontaneous act of rebellion, but it was calculated, well timed, and done in solidarity with others so that a Black woman would be the one who took down the flag. Nine days before Newsome’s climb, White supremacist Dylann Roof entered the oldest African Methodist Episcopal Church in the South,
