Church shooting site to re open inCharleston
Small group of parishioners entered the bullet scarred Emanuel AME church to see the room where nine congregants died as FBI probes a purported Dylann Roof manifesto. Roof, jailed on nine counts of murder and a weapon charge, faced opening statements and statements of racial hatred cited by witnesses.
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Black churches face renewed threats after Charleston attack
The Charleston massacre at Emanuel AME Church by Dylann Roof highlights historic targeting of Black churches. In Washington DC, a vigil at Metropolitan AME drew multiracial mourners as clergy and scholars note the church’s role in faith, freedom, and resistance from slavery to civil rights.
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