South Carolina church shooting

LOS ANGELES — Surviving family members of victims from the Emanuel AME South Carolina Church shooting have spoken out in support of a short independent film entitled Broken by La Trycee Fowler. Broken follows the lives of two children in a small Southern Mississippi town who witness a massacre at their church, leaving one of them orphaned. The film […]

CHARLESTON, S.C. (AP) — A week before the sentencing phase of his trial, Dylann Roof got a visit in jail from his mother, who pleaded with him to reconsider his decision to act as his own lawyer in the fatal shootings of nine black worshippers at a South Carolina church. But Roof was more concerned […]

Pop star and “The Voice” coach Pharrell Williams will perform during the Sunday service at Emanuel AME Church in South Carolina, where nine black parishioners were gunned down during a Bible study class over the summer. Williams’ appearance is part of a special program on race relations produced by A&E Networks and iHeartMedia that was […]

COLUMBIA, S.C. (AP) — The man accused of slaying nine black church members in Charleston will be indicted on a federal hate crime charge on Wednesday, according to an official close to the case. The official, speaking on condition of anonymity because the indictment hadn’t been publicly announced yet, told The Associated Press that a […]

1:15 p.m. Hundreds of mourners are filing past the casket of Sharonda Coleman-Singleton, the second Charleston church shooting victim to be laid to rest. Those attending at Mt. Moriah Missionary Baptist Church were screened by officers who searched each bag at the door. Police officers were posted on the road and at various entry points […]

The Mother Emanuel A.M.E. shooting tragedy in Charleston, S.C. was another in a long line of racially-fueled violence throughout history aimed at the Black church. Denmark Vesey, a former slave and organizer of a failed slave revolt in 1822, was a founding member of the church and his connection to recent events raises some questions. […]

For the reported 14th time during his presidency, Barack Obama this morning expressed sorrow following a mass shooting in the United States. This time, however, some of the dead were personal friends. The president addressed the horrific South Carolina church shooting in emotional remarks that invoked America’s racial history and the heated politics over gun […]

  Roland Martin talks to retired special agent Don Clark and Armstrong Williams, the cousin of slain Pastor Clementa Pinckney about the deadly shooting of nine people in a South Carolina church. “What they’ve got to do right now who this individual is completely. they’ve got to find out who this person is and more importantly who […]