In the US, Buffalo shooting latest example of targeted racial violence
AP Black people going about their daily lives – then dying in a hail of bullets fired by a white man who targeted them because of their skin colour. Substitute a supermarket in Buffalo, New York, with a church in South Carolina, and Malcolm Graham knows the pain and grief the families of those killed Saturday are feeling. […]
Charleston church massacre looms over hate crime debate in US state of South Carolina
Columbia, South CarolinaAP South Carolina can both honor nine Black worshippers killed five years ago in a racist attack and send a message that it loves and protects all its neighbors by becoming the 48th state to pass a law with more severe penalties for hate crimes, supporters said Wednesday. A small group of House […]
THE INTERVIEW: JENNIFER PINCKNEY, WIDOW OF MURDERED MOTHER EMANUEL PASTOR
MAINA MWAURA, of Religion News Service, speaks with Jennifer Pinckney, the widow of Mother Emanuel Pastor Clementa Pinckney, four years after the death of her husband in the 2015 mass shooting at his church, Emanuel AME Church in Charleston, South Carolina…