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June 24, 2015
Warriors arrived on six floats with
the championship trophy they
won after the team bested LeBron
James’ Cleveland Cavaliers.
Flag Flies in Oregon Park
In Oregon, a black lawmaker wants
a symbol of the confederacy re-
moved from a park near the State
Capitol in Salem. The Mississippi
flag, the last state flag to include
the confederate battle flag, is part
of an installation of flags represent-
ing all 50 states in the park. Rep.
Rapper ‘Diddy’ Arrested
Hip-hop music mogul Sean “Did- Lew Frederick of Portland says the
dy” Combs posted bail and was flag represents racism and hate and
released from jail Monday night is asking that it taken down.
after being charged with assault
involving a weight room kettle- Charleston Unity March
ball at the athletic facilities of On Sunday thousands of people
the University of California, Los joined members of the Emanuel
Angeles, where his son is on the AME Church in Charleston, S.C.
football team. No one was seri- for a unity march to support the vic-
ously injured and campus police tims of the shooting attack that took
the lives of nine African-American
are investigating.
members during a Wednesday-eve-
ning bible study group.
Confederate Flag Debate
The Confederate flag may be see-
ing its last days at South Caroli- ‘Mass Extinction’ Forecast
na’s statehouse, as activists, civil A study published Friday in the
rights leaders and politicians call Science Advances journal said
for its removal in light of last the planet appears to be entering
week’s massacre at a historic the first mass extinction since di-
black church in Charleston by a nosaurs perished over 65 million
years ago, citing the disappear-
white supremacist.
ance of vertebrates, which include
mammals, birds, reptiles, amphib-
Basketball Victory Lap
NBA Championship players ians, and fish, at a rate 114 times
graced the streets of Oakland in faster than normal. Human activ-
a victory parade Friday that drew ity related to development and
hundreds of thousands of fans. climate change is exacerbating the
Members of the Golden State problem, the study argued.