Social Issues

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Bree Newsome of Charlotte, N.C., removes the Confederate battle flag at a Confederate monument at the Statehouse in Columbia, S.C., on Saturday, June, 27, 2015. She was taken into custody when she came down. The flag was raised again by capitol workers about 45 minutes later. (Associated Press)

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Al Jazeera's digital news channel AJ+ posted a video for the Fourth of July that mocks Americans as fat, racist and violent. (YouTube/AJ+)

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Jim Obergefell, the named plaintiff in the Obergefell v. Hodges, is backed by supporters on the steps of the Texas Capitol during a rally in Austin on June 29, 2015. The Supreme Court declared that same-sex couples have a right to marry anywhere in the United States on June 26, 2015. (AP Photo/Eric Gay. File photo) ** FILE **

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Supporters of same-sex marriage celebrate outside the Supreme Court in Washington, Friday, June 26, 2015 after the court declared that same-sex couples have a right to marry anywhere in the United States. It was 2004 when Massachusetts became the first state to allow same-sex couples to marry. Eleven years later, the Supreme Court has now ruled that state marriage laws must fall if they do not permit same-sex couples to marry. (AP Photo/Manuel Balce Ceneta)

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FILE- In this Dec. 21, 2011 file photo, Maricopa County Sheriff Joe Arpaio shows his badge as he holds a ceremony where 92 of his immigration jail officers, who lost their federal power to check whether inmates are in the county illegally, turn in their credentials after federal officials pulled the Sheriff's office immigration enforcement powers in Phoenix. The U.S. Justice Department is putting Arpaio on trial next month in a civil rights case that will focus in part on how the sheriff investigated and criminally charged people who crossed him from 2007 until 2010. (AP Photo/Ross D. Franklin, File)

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In a Facebook post, George Takei said that blackface is not racist and/or that it is acceptable for an outsider to tell a black man that he is a racist caricature. He also used an analogy that would imply that Justice Thomas is actually white. (Associated Press)

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Protesters against a measure requiring California schoolchildren to get vaccinated rally at the Capitol in Sacramento on April 8. (Associated Press)

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Under Islamic State rule, religious minorities like the Yazidis are treated like second-class citizens, cannot openly practice their religion, are sometimes forced to pay fines, and often face attacks on their places of worship, death or sexual slavery. (Associated Press)

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Kansas Gov. Sam Brownback asks a question during a meeting with legislative leaders about the state's plans for issuing $1 billion in bonds to boost the financial health of its public pension system for teachers and government workers, Thursday, July 2, 2015, at the Statehouse in Topeka, Kan. Market conditions could delay or prevent the state from issuing the bonds. (AP Photo/John Hanna)

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A black man was arrested and charged Tuesday after posting dozens of racial and threatening signs in downtown Colorado Springs, including outside a predominantly black church. (KRDO)

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Vincent Broughton, 44, admitted to posting dozens of racist and threatening signs in downtown Colorado Springs, including outside a predominantly black church. (KRDO)

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Photographer Ed Freeman has received death threats for a gay pride picture he took that mimics Associated Press’ Joe Rosenthal’s iconic photograph of Marines at Iwo Jima in 1945. (Image: Facebook, Ed Freeman Photography) ** FILE **

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Photographer Ed Freeman has received death threats for a gay pride picture he took that mimics Associated Press’ Joe Rosenthal’s iconic photograph of Marines at Iwo Jima in 1945. (Image: Facebook, Ed Freeman Photography) ** FILE **

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Photographer Ed Freeman has received death threats for a gay pride picture he took that mimics Associated Press' Joe Rosenthal's iconic photograph of Marines at Iwo Jima in 1945. (Image: Facebook, Ed Freeman Photography) ** FILE **

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Illustration on Obama's work to increase dependence on government by Alexander Hunter/The Washington Times

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In this April 29, 2015, photo, Maile Hampton, center carrying sign, leads a group in a march as they protest the death of Freddie Gray, in Sacramento, Calif. (Hector Amezcua/The Sacramento Bee via AP)

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President Obama's final year in office will be momentous for his signature health care law. (Associated Press/File)

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Bishop Gene Robinson addresses the congregation at Christ Church in Philadelphia, Sunday, May 1, 2005. Robinson, now retired and divorced from his husband, said he is breathless about how quickly the gay rights movement has progressed since he was getting daily death threats and forced to wear a bulletproof vest to his consecration 12 years ago. Episcopalians are set to vote Wednesday, July 1, 2015, on allowing religious weddings for same-sex couples, just days after the U.S. Supreme Court legalized gay marriage nationwide. (AP Photo/Coke Whitworth, File)