Dylann Roof
Biden to visit Mother Emanuel AME Church as South Carolina primaries approach
By Adelle M. Banks — January 5, 2024
(RNS) — ‘I would hope and pray that the community comes and hears and gets excited, gets energized about the 2024 election,’ said the church’s pastor.
Practicing prophetic grief
By Otis Moss III — March 23, 2023
(RNS) — When we grieve pathetically, we may come to imitate our oppressors.
Supreme Court rejects appeal from Dylann Roof, who killed 9
By Associated Press — October 12, 2022
WASHINGTON (AP) — Roof shot participants at a Bible study session at Mother Emanuel AME Church in Charleston, South Carolina.
When soul music becomes sanctuary from racial terror
By Andre Henry — June 29, 2022
(RNS) — In the current fascist counterrevolution, a watering hole founded by Motown songwriters offers peace.
The conversation white parents should be having with their children
By Kelly Brown Douglas — May 17, 2022
(RNS) — Schools are being barred from discussing racism. That leaves parents and our faith communities.
How Black people and Jews are bound together in ‘great replacement’ theory
By Yonat Shimron — May 16, 2022
(RNS) — Dozens of pages of the Buffalo shooter's manifesto are devoted first to Blacks and then to Jews, replete with photos, drawings, graphs and caricatures.
Buffalo shooting latest example of targeted racial violence
By Aaron Morrison, Deepti Hajela, and Brendan Farrington — May 16, 2022
(AP) — For many Black Americans, the Buffalo shooting has stirred up the same fear and vulnerability they faced after Charleston and other attacks.
ELCA Lutherans mark 35th anniversary amid calls to expand beyond European roots
By Emily McFarlan Miller — April 29, 2022
(RNS) — The denomination, born on April 30, 1987, remains one of the whitest in the country.
A new Anne Frank Center aims to reshape racism through Holocaust education
By Yonat Shimron — September 15, 2021
COLUMBIA, S.C. (RNS) — The German-Dutch diarist is being memorialized in the heart of the South as part of an educational effort to stem not only hatred of Jews, but bigotry, discrimination and racism more broadly.
Court upholds death sentence for church shooter Dylann Roof
By Meg Kinnard and Denise Lavoie — August 25, 2021
RICHMOND, Va. (AP) — A federal appeals court Wednesday upheld Dylann Roof’s conviction and death sentence for the 2015 racist slayings of nine members of a Black South Carolina congregation, saying the legal record cannot even capture the “full horror” of what he did. A unanimous three-judge panel of the 4th U.S. Circuit Court of […]
Overturn Dylann Roof’s death sentence — for me, not for him
By Sharon Risher — June 1, 2021
(RNS) — Despite the damage done to my family, and possibly because of it, I reject the death penalty.
How a courtroom ritual of forgiveness absolves white America
By J. Kameron Carter — October 4, 2019
(RNS) — American religion needs black (and native) forgiveness in order to keep the national fantasy of civil society, which is antiblack, alive, writes J. Kameron Carter.
Black minister to his mostly white ELCA denomination: ‘We need to rethink church’
By Adelle M. Banks — August 28, 2019
(RNS) — The Rev. Lenny Duncan recently decided to challenge his denomination in a new book, titled 'Dear Church: A Love Letter from a Black Preacher to the Whitest Denomination in the U.S.'
Charleston church shooter pleads guilty to state murder counts
By Reuters — April 10, 2017
CHARLESTON, S.C. (Reuters) Pleading guilty to the state charges allows for Dylann Roof's transfer to death row and spares survivors and relatives of the victims a second round of courtroom testimony.
Dylann Roof stopped at second church after 2015 massacre
By Reuters — February 23, 2017
(Reuters) Prosecutors say Roof intended to continue his racially motivated violence at another black church about 20 miles from Emanuel AME Church, where he killed nine people.
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