What Happened in June?

Activist Bree Newsome scales a thirty-foot flagpole and removes the Confederate battle flag from  the South Carolina Statehouse grounds. She and a collaborator, James Tyson were arrested and the flag went back up. Following the controversy resulting from her action, a vote on the presence of the flag on the Statehouse grounds took place among South Carolina's House of Representatives on July 9, which resulted in the final removal of the flag the following Friday. The charges against Newsome and Tyson were later dropped. More

The United Kingdom votes in a referendum to withdraw from the European Union, with 51.9 percent supporting Britain's exit (“Brexit”) and 48.1 percent opposing the move. it marked the first time a country had decided to leave the organization.  Expand +