By George E. Curry NNPA Editor-in-Chief WASHINGTON (NNPA) – We may never know what ignited the explosion inside of White Supremacist Dylann Roof that prompted...
CONVERSE, Texas (USA Today) — A well-kept family secret about racial identity has given a Texas woman a unique perspective on the uproar surrounding Rachel Dolezal. The...
Lucas L. Johnson II, ASSOCIATED PRESS BROWNSVILLE, Tenn. (AP) — The man in the black-and-white photograph on Jim Emison’s desk seems to look right...
Lindsay Dunsmuir, REUTERS MORGANTOWN, N.C. (Reuters) — A North Carolina man has been charged with an alleged plot to buy a semiautomatic rifle which...
CHARLESTON, S.C. (The Huffington Post) — Police say someone spray-painted the message “Black Lives Matter” on a statue memorializing the Confederacy in Charleston several...
Adam Parker, THE POST AND COURIER CHARLESTON, S.C. (The Post and Courier) — In a remarkable display of joy, sorrow and trust, worshippers at...
Frances Robles, THE WASHINGTON POST COLUMBIA, S.C. (The Washington Post) — A website with a white supremacist manifesto features dozens of photos of Dylann Storm Roof,...
3 p.m. A group of congregation members met Saturday in the church room where days earlier nine people were killed when a man who had...
(Think Progress) – NRA board member Charles Cotton blamed Clementa Pinckney, a victim of the shooting at Emanuel African Methodist Episcopal Church, for his own...
JEFFREY COLLINS, Associated Press CHARLESTON, S.C. (AP) — They forgave him. They advised him to repent for his sins, and asked for God’s mercy on his...
(The Washington Post) – A gunman opened fire and killed nine people during a prayer service on Wednesday at a historic African American church in...
(New York Times) – In 1868, three men assassinated the Rev. Benjamin Randolph in broad daylight as he was boarding a train in Abbeville County, South...
(FiveThirtyEight) – “We as a country will have to reckon with the fact that this type of mass violence does not happen in other advanced...
MITCH WEISS, Associated Press MEG KINNARD, Associated Press JACOB JORDAN, Associated Press LEXINGTON, South Carolina (AP) — In recent weeks, Dylann Storm Roof reconnected with a...
(The Post & Courier) – The mass shooting at a historic Charleston black church Wednesday night may mark the deadliest hate crime in South Carolina...
(CBS News) – After the massacre in Charleston, SC at Emanuel AME Church, CBS News recovered Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.’s eulogy for the four girls...
(Slate) – You have a choice: You can have brutal, abusive policing. Or you can have no policing at all. That’s the implied message from...
(The Post and Courier) – The young white man arrested Thursday in the shooting deaths at a historic black Charleston church lived near the swamps of...
JEFFREY COLLINS, Associated Press RUSS BYNUM, Associated Press CHARLESTON, South Carolina (AP) — A white man who joined a prayer meeting inside a historic black church...
(NBC News) – President Barack Obama on Thursday addressed the horrific South Carolina church shooting in emotional remarks that invoked America’s turbulent racial history and the heated politics...
(New York Times) – The Rev. Clementa Pinckney, the South Carolina state senator who was reportedly killed during an attack at a historic black church Wednesday...
(Politico) – “Are you African-American?” For Rachel Dolezal, the question seemed almost rhetorical. The now embattled former president of the Spokane, Washington, chapter of the...
(CNN) – Ezra Dolezal would love to see his sister, Rachel, take a DNA test to prove whose version of the truth about her racial...
by Charlene Muhammad Special to the NNPA from The Final Call LOS ANGELES (The Final Call) – An 11 woman, one man jury unanimously convicted LAPD...
JESSE J. HOLLAND, Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — Rachel Dolezal, born to white parents, self-identifies as black — a decision that illustrates how fluid identity can...
