Program Segments

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  1:16 PM EDT

  South Carolina State Senate Session, Opening

  The South Carolina State Senate convened for a special session to debate a procedural measure that would allow them to consider a bill that would remove the Confederate flag from the State House grounds. The bill came about in reaction to the June 2015 mass shooting at Charleston’s Emanuel African Methodist Episcopal Church, the oldest African Methodist Episcopal church in the Southern United States. This is the opening portion of the session. This event from the State House in Columbia was courtesy of South Carolina Educational Television.…

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  1:37 PM EDT

  South Carolina State Senate Debate on the Confederate Flag

  The South Carolina State Senate convened for a special session to debate a procedural measure that would allow them to consider at a future date a bill that would remove the Confederate flag from the state Capitol grounds. The resolution was passed by voice vote. The South Carolina House of Representatives had passed a similar motion, as called for by Governor Nikki Haley (R-SC). The bill came about in reaction to the June 2015 mass shooting at Charleston’s Emanuel African Methodist Episcopal Church, the oldest African Methodist Episcopal…

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  3:11 PM EDT

  South Carolina State Senate Session, Closing

  State Senator Gerald Malloy talked about funeral arrangement for State Senator Clementa Pinckney, who was one of the nine people killed in the June 17, 2015, shooting at the Emanuel African Methodist Episcopal Church in Charleston. This was the closing portion of a special session of the South Carolina State Senate convened to debate a procedural measure that would allow them to consider a bill that would remove the Confederate flag from the state Capitol grounds. This event from the State House in Columbia was courtesy of South Carolina…