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...
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...
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 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) – 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...
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...
(New York Times) – I have no doubt that had the Rev. Clementa C. Pinckney lived, he would have become known — and celebrated — across our country...
(The Washington Post) – Dylann Roof, the man accused of a shooting spree that left nine people dead at a historic black church in Charleston...
