JEFFREY COLLINS, Associated Press COLUMBIA, South Carolina (AP) — The Sons of Confederate Veterans knew an attack on their cherished symbols would come after seeing photos...
(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...
(Salon) – In the days since Dylann Roof murdered nine people, all African-American, in a church in South Carolina, the national conversation has largely concentrated on...
(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...
(The Atlantic) – This afternoon, in announcing her support for removing the Confederate flag from the capitol grounds, South Carolina Governor Nikki Haley asserted that...
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...
By George E. Curry NNPA Columnist Former U.S. Senator Bill Bradley is fond of saying, “Slavery was America’s original sin, and racism remains its unresolved...
By Christina Coleman Special to the NNPA from The Chicago Defender (NNPA) — The South Carolina judge who urged the public support the family of...
Jon Swaine, THE GUARDIAN (The Guardian) — The leader of a rightwing group that Dylann Roof allegedly credits with helping to radicalise him against...
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...
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...
(The Washington Post) – After Dylann Storm Roof allegedly shot up an AME church in Charleston, S.C., killing nine people, two flags were lowered more than 100 miles...
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 Washington Post) – Dylann Roof, the man accused of a shooting spree that left nine people dead at a historic black church in Charleston...
(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...