US to pay $US88 million to families, victims of Charleston church massacre
Washington DC, USAP Families of nine victims killed in a racist attack at a Black South Carolina church have reached a settlement with the Justice Department over a faulty background check that allowed Dylann Roof to purchase the gun he used in the 2015 massacre. The Justice Department will pay $US88 million, which includes $US63 million for the families of the nine […]
AME Church historical documentary features Mother Emanuel pastor Clementa Pinckney
RNS The African Methodist Episcopal Church has released a short film online about its history that includes an interview with Rev Clementa Pinckney, the pastor killed in a 2015 attack on his South Carolina church, in which he talks about the historically Black denomination’s significance. “Our church and every good AME pastor knows that we’re […]
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…