News in Levels

Racism in the USA - level 1 - News #2

Nine people die. This happens in South Carolina, USA. The killing is racially motivated.

The President of the United States, Barack Obama, talks about this.

He says that people are still racist. The USA has a history of slavery. It is in the American DNA. It cannot be changed overnight.

Difficult words: racially motivated (somebody killed because he was racist – he hates people of a different race and thinks that he is better than them), slavery (a thing in a society where some people are free and some people are not – they are slaves; they must only work), DNA (the things inside a person’s body that make him that person).

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News in Levels

The Confederate flag in South Carolina - level 1 - News #1

This news is from South Carolina in the USA. It is about the Confederate flag. It is a very controversial flag. For some people, it a symbol of their history. For others, it is a symbol of racism.

One month ago, a man killed nine black people. They were in a church. The man had the flag.

People start to talk about the flag. Politicians talk about this in the statehouse. They take down the flag outside the statehouse.

Difficult words: controversial (when something is controversial, many people talk and do not agree about something), were (past of “are”), politician (a “boss” of a country or a state), statehouse (the building for politicians of a state).

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