By Barney Blakeney Special to the NNPA from The Charleston Chronicle The heinous June 17 massacre of nine African American worshippers at Mother Emanuel AME Church...
By Jazelle Hunt Washington Correspondent WASHINGTON (NNPA) – For many outside the Black community, they had never seen anything like it. Though suffering and deep in...
CHARLESTON, S.C. (The Washington Post) — What finally opened Paul Thurmond’s eyes and changed his heart was in the Gospel of Mark — the very New...
JOHN MORITZ, Associated Press CHARLESTON, S.C. (AP) - The day she was killed along with eight others during Bible study at a South Carolina church, Myra...
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE NOBCO Mourns the Loss of One of Our Own, Senator Clementa Pinckney Washington, DC – June 24, 2015 – The National Organization of...
MEG KINNARD, Associated Press JEFFREY COLLINS, Associated Press JONATHAN DREW, Associated Press CHARLESTON, S.C. (AP) — President Barack Obama delivered a passionate discourse on America’s racial...
JONATHAN DREW, Associated Press MEG KINNARD, Associated Press NORTH CHARLESTON, South Carolina (AP) — A choir and band launched into a gospel tune and roused hundreds...
(USA Today) — The family of Dylann Roof, the suspect in the Charleston church shootings, released a new statement Thursday offering condolences for the victims’ families...
By Matthew C. Whitaker NNPA Guest Columnist On Wednesday, June 17, Dylann Roof, a 21-year-old White supremacist, massacred nine Black worshipers in the historic Emanuel African...
By Jesse L. Jackson, Sr. NNPA Columnist The savage act of racial terrorism at Emanuel A.M.E. Church – Mother Emanuel – in Charleston, S.C., has been...
(Slate) – The group that “informed” Dylann Roof’s deeply racist beliefs, and writings, is the Council of Conservative Citizens (CCC). Roof even cited the group’s website when talking about his...
JESSE J. HOLLAND, Associated Press CHARLESTON, S.C. (AP) — The Rev. Norvel Goff will walk into Emanuel African Methodist Episcopal Church for Bible study keenly aware...
(CNN) – It happened in a matter of days. In South Carolina, the governor called for the Confederate flag to stop flying over the capitol....
(The Atlantic) – This afternoon, in announcing her support for removing the Confederate flag from the capitol grounds, South Carolina Governor Nikki Haley asserted that...
(NewsOne) – In what is clearly yet another ironic twist in the Charleston church massacre, one of shooter Dylann Roof’s best friends was Black, and said he still loves...
By George E. Curry NNPA Editor-in-Chief WASHINGTON (NNPA) – When President Obama returns to Emanuel A.M.E. Church in Charleston, S.C. Friday to eulogize Rev. Clementa Pinckney,...
By George E. Curry NNPA Editor-in-Chief WASHINGTON (NNPA) – In what is quickly and unexpectedly gaining ground as a fitting memorial to the nine African Americans...
By Freddie Allen NNPA Senior Washington Correspondent WASHINGTON (NNPA) – On the same day that Loretta Lynch was sworn-in as the 83rd attorney general of...
By Freddie Allen NNPA Senior Washington Correspondent WASHINGTON (NNPA) – A racist manifesto linked to Dylann Roof, the 21-year-old White man who confessed to shooting nine...
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...
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...
Doug Stanglin and Tyler Pager, USA TODAY COLUMBIA, S.C. (USA Today) — Demonstrators preparing to gather at the South Carolina Capitol on Saturday to...
(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 Post & Courier) – South Carolina Gov. Nikki Haley said Friday morning that the gunman who killed nine people at the downtown Emanuel African Methodist...
