Mother Emanuel
Biden calls out ‘poison’ of white supremacy in address at Mother Emanuel in S.C.
By Adelle M. Banks — January 8, 2024
(RNS) — Biden’s remarks were interrupted by pro-Palestinian protesters shouting for a ceasefire in the Israel-Hamas war. In return, people in the pews started calling out “Four More Years.”
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.
Idaho church window once depicting Robert E. Lee now honors Black female bishop
By Adelle M. Banks — December 22, 2021
(RNS) — ‘We recognize this section of our window is more than a benign historical marker,’ the United Methodist church’s leaders said in 2020.
Religious artifacts in new Reconstruction exhibit depict resilience, racism
By Adelle M. Banks — September 22, 2021
(RNS) — ‘Because the church is an engine of so much civically and spiritually and educationally, it’s recognized as a target,’ a museum curator said of Black congregations.
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.
AME Church historical documentary features Mother Emanuel pastor Clementa Pinckney
By Adelle M. Banks — April 29, 2021
(RNS) — The AME Church is highlighting the documentary along with another about the history of its major quadrennial meetings, as producers work on a third film.
Obama speechwriter’s memoir ‘Grace’ to come out in 2022
By Hillel Italie — February 2, 2021
NEW YORK (AP) — Cody Keenan's memoir is set around the time a white supremacist murdered nine Black parishioners in South Carolina.
Five years after shooting, Mother Emanuel uneasily adapts as pilgrimage site
By Matthew J. Cressler — June 17, 2020
(RNS) — Before the pandemic struck, worship often included people from across the U.S. and some foreign countries, come to pray at what they take to be a sacred site.
How the fight for racial justice pushed Charleston beyond the segregated hour
By Matthew J. Cressler — February 24, 2020
(RNS) — Moving beyond King's most segregated hour means fighting for fairness day after day, year after year in the name of all of the prophets who stand against injustice.
Let’s not ask Botham Jean’s family to choose forgiveness over justice
By Shane Claiborne — October 8, 2019
(RNS) — We’ve seen this dynamic before. The families of nine victims of Mother Emanuel church in Charleston, S.C., proclaimed both forgiveness and justice with power, but some folks only heard the forgiveness.
Birmingham church, 56 years later, to recall bombing with messages of love, action
By Adelle M. Banks — September 12, 2019
BIRMINGHAM, Ala. (RNS) — ‘Our hope is that people will leave inspired, become agents of change as a result of what happened here,’ said the Rev. Arthur Price Jr.
At victimized Charleston church, Booker condemns gun violence, racism
By Jack Jenkins — August 7, 2019
CHARLESTON, S.C. (RNS) — Invoking God and Christian love, presidential candidate Sen. Cory Booker railed against gun violence and racism on Wednesday (Aug. 7) at the site of a 2015 church shooting.
Mother Emanuel’s forgiveness narrative is ‘complicated,’ says reporter-turned-author
By Adelle M. Banks — June 6, 2019
(RNS) — 'The churches themselves are as segregated as ever,' Jennifer Berry Hawes says of Charleston, S.C. 'What has changed is that there are efforts to bridge divides between the people in those churches.'
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