10 Facts About Historic “Mother” Emanuel AME Church And Its Pastor Clementa...
History of Charleston's "Mother Emanuel" A.M.E. Church as presented on its own site: http://t.co/qPJcEzbPz9 pic.twitter.com/GCOEaXRXU1 — Robert McNamara (@history1800s) June 18, 2015 A tragedy still...
View ArticleNewsOne Top 5: Charleston AME Church Tragedy Edition
Your browser does not support iframes. In today’s special edition of the NewsOne Top 5, we take a look at the top story trending on NewsOne.com and around the world, the tragic Mother Emanuel AME...
View ArticleCousin Of AME Victim Rev. DePayne Middleton Doctor: “Her Children Will Never...
Source: Family Handout The doors to Charleston’s Mother Emanuel AME Church reopened Sunday to an exodus of people undeterred by the murderous efforts of a gunman fueled by anti-Black rhetoric — faith...
View ArticleWhat Should The Nation Expect To Hear During Pres. Obama’s Eulogy Of Rev....
Your browser does not support iframes. President Barack Obama is scheduled to eulogize South Carolina State Senator and pastor of Emanuel AME Church, Rev. Clementa Pinckney. Before the nation’s first...
View ArticleBlack woman climbs flagpole, snatches Confederate flag from South Carolina...
They say if you want something done, get a (black) woman to do it. Just after dawn this morning, activist and North Carolina educator Bree Newsome climbed a 30-foot flag pole and snatched the...
View ArticleIs Focusing On Forgiveness In The Wake Of AME Shooting Deflecting Our...
Your browser does not support iframes. In the aftermath of the Emanuel AME Church shooting, many are focusing on the forgiving nature of the African community, but is all this discussion of...
View Article“I Did It For All The Little Black Girls Watching Us:” Bree Newsome On Why...
Days after 30-year-old community organizer Brittany “Bree” Newsome scaled a 30-foot pole to remove the Confederate flag from the South Carolina Statehouse grounds, the nation is still invigorated by...
View ArticleSouth Carolina lawmakers vote to remove Confederate Flag from State House...
Source: Win McNamee / Getty In a 37-3 vote, the South Carolina Senate decided to remove the Confederate flag from State House grounds. But the physical act of removing the flag may take some time, NBC...
View ArticleDylann Roof Indicted For Murder In AME Shooting, Charged With 3 Additional...
Source: Handout / Getty South Carolina Solicitor Scarlett Wilson on Tuesday announced that a grand jury indicted Dylann Roof on nine counts of murder for the Charleston Mother Emanuel AME church...
View ArticleMother Emanuel AME Shooting Suspect Dylann Roof Indicted On Federal Hate...
The man accused of killing nine Black parishioners at the historic Mother Emanuel AME church in Charleston, S.C. was indicted on federal hate crime charges Wednesday, the New York Times reports....
View ArticleFBI Arrests Dylann Roof’s Friend For Allegedly Having Prior Knowledge Of...
A friend of Dylann Roof, the gunman who killed nine African-Americans at the Mother Emanuel Church in Charleston, South Carolina in June, has been arrested by the FBI for allegedly having prior...
View ArticleNewsOne Now Democratic Presidential Debate Recap: Are All Of Our Issues Being...
Your browser does not support iframes. The first Democratic presidential debate of 2016 sponsored by the Congressional Black Caucus Institute should have fully addressed all of the important issues...
View ArticleLawsuit Claims Confederate X On Mississippi’s State Flag Puts People In Danger
Your browser does not support iframes. The ongoing Confederate flag controversy has made its way to the courts of Mississippi, where Attorney Carlos Moore has filed a federal lawsuit against Governor...
View ArticleAttorneys for Mother Emanuel shooter want charges dropped
Defense attorneys for Dylann Roof, have asked a federal judge to drop the charges filed against him, according to U.S. News & World Report. Prosecutors have until July 25th to respond. Roof’s...
View ArticleNEWS ROUNDUP: Thousands March Hand-In-Hand In Solidarity With Mother Emanuel...
Source: (Photo by Cem Ozdel/Anadolu Agency/Getty Images) It’s been almost a week since a gunman killed nine at the historic Emanuel AME Church in Charleston, South Carolina. On Sunday, hours after the...
View ArticlePresident Obama Delivers Powerful Eulogy At Rev. Clementa Pinckney’s Funeral,...
UPDATE: Friday, June 26, 3:50 PM EST: After delivering a powerful eulogy that both memorialized Rev. Clementa Pinckney and called for the removal of the Confederate flag, President Obama lead the...
View ArticleDylann Roof found Guilty
A federal jury on Thursday found Dylann Roof guilty of all 33 charges in the Mother Emanuel AME Church massacre in Charleston, South Carolina, reports CNN. Roof confessed to killing nine people last...
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