A story was doing the rounds online that Beyonce and Jay Z were attempting to buy the rights to the Confederate flag to stop it being associated with incidents such as the recent Charleston shootings.
The flag, known as the ‘battle flag’ for the America’s south, was carried by shooter Dylann Roof in his racially motivated attack on the church where nine people were killed. The flag itself was originally created to represent white supremacy and to promote slavery but has… Read the full story