Those who call the actions of Bree Newsome "heroic" aren't exaggerating. The artist, filmmaker and activist who pulled down the Confederate flag in front of the Charleston State House over the weekend was simply doing what has needed to be done for a long time. Some will call it illegal, but then, so were the actions of Rosa Parks and Harriet Tubman. It didn't make what they did any less justified. And in Newsome's case, it was both an act of protest and an act of art.