amy: bree newsome bass is an artist and anti-racist activist.15, following the massacre of eight african-american parishioners and their pastor by a white supremacist at the emanuel ame church in charleston, bree scaled the 30-foot flagpole at the south carolina state capitol and removed the confederate flag. next up, we go to the growing support for reparations in america. stay with us. ♪ [music break] amy: "today is the day" by the palestinian lo-fi duo hazy noir. this is democracy now! i'm amy goodman with juan gonzalez. we look now at the growing movement in support of reparations in the united states for black descendants of people who were enslaved. the state new york joined california to establish a commission to study reparations and racial justice. more work is being done on a much more local and personal level. this is the focus on a new documentary premiering this week on pbs "the cost of , inheritance: an american reframed special." this is the trailer. >> cornelius, age eight. >> seeing those names. >> every time i say i am the fift