FitzGibbon Media, Washington-based progressive PR firm, and Blackbird, New York organizer and promoter of the Black Lives Matter movement, handled publicity for the removal by activists of the Confederate Battle Flag from the South Carolina Statehouse on the June 27 morning of funerals held for victims of the AME Church massacre in Charleston.
SC Governor Nikki Haley supports taking down the flag and legislators plan to vote of its removal after July 4.
Bree Newsome, who climbed the flagpole to take down the flag, said her group couldn't wait any longer for the flag to go.
She said, "It's time for a new chapter where we are sincere about dismantling white supremacy and building toward true racial justice and equality."
The flag's removal soared to the top of Twitter's trending topics for most of June 27 and received global media coverage on outlets such as CNN and the New York Times.
In its piece, CNN credited FitzGibbon Media, which represented Color of Change in the flag action, for reporting the event.
FitzGibbon Media, which is headed by Trevor FitzGibbon, has 30 staffers working for clients such as WikiLeaks, MoveOn, Britain's Guardian, AFl-CIO, Pierre Omidyar's Intercept and Robert Kennedy Jr.'s WaterKeeper.
Maggie Moran, who is well-connected in New Jersey and New York Democratic politics, has established Moxie Strategies in Asbury Park, NJ.
Husch Blackwell Strategies has added FleishmanHillard alum Michael Slatin as a principal in its public affairs group.
Rory Cooper, a veteran Republican operative and policy specialist, has joined Teneo’s Washington office as senior managing director in its strategy & communications practice.
Brian Fallon, who served as national press secretary for Hillary Clinton’s 2016 presidential run, is signing on next month as Vice President’s Kamala Harris’ campaign communications director.
TikTok is nothing more than a Chinese propaganda tool that poses “a grave threat to America’s national security and, in particular, impressionable children and young adults,” say two Congressmen who want the platform registered as a foreign agent.
Have a comment? Send it to 
No comments have been submitted for this story yet.