Harriet McCleod, REUTERS CHARLESTON, S.C. (Reuters) — A South Carolina judge on Thursday extended for another week a temporary order sealing court documents and silencing...
By Benjamin F. Chavis, Jr. NNPA Columnist History is more than a cumulative knowledge of the facts of the past. For Black Americans and for...
JEFFREY COLLINS, Associated Press COLUMBIA, S.C. (AP) — The South Carolina Senate gave final approval Tuesday to a bill removing the Confederate flag from a pole...
By Marian Wright Edelman NNPA Columnist “For in a warm climate, no man will labour for himself who can make another labour for him. This...
By Marc H. Morial NNPA Columnist “They were still living by faith when they died, Scripture tells us. They did not receive the things promised;...
(NBC News) – Police have said so for years and now scientists have measured the effect: Mass shootings and school attacks do inspire copycats. As...
By Jesse L. Jackson, Sr. NNPA Columnist “It is time to move the flag from the capitol grounds.” With those words, South Carolina Gov. Nikki...
By Robert McWhirter NNPA Guest Columnist The church shooting in Charleston, S.C. once again showed us the connection of guns and race. Statistics of inner city gun...
Sam Sanders, NPR (NPR.com) — Glover Grove Baptist Church is nestled in a woody, quiet part of Warrenville, South Carolina, surrounded by trailer homes...
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE NOBCO Mourns the Loss of One of Our Own, Senator Clementa Pinckney Washington, DC – June 24, 2015 – The National Organization of...
(Slate) – The group that “informed” Dylann Roof’s deeply racist beliefs, and writings, is the Council of Conservative Citizens (CCC). Roof even cited the group’s website when talking about his...
(CNN) – It happened in a matter of days. In South Carolina, the governor called for the Confederate flag to stop flying over the capitol....
(CNN) – It happened in a matter of days. In South Carolina, the governor called for the Confederate flag to stop flying over the capitol....
(The Atlantic) – This afternoon, in announcing her support for removing the Confederate flag from the capitol grounds, South Carolina Governor Nikki Haley asserted that...
By George E. Curry NNPA Columnist Former U.S. Senator Bill Bradley is fond of saying, “Slavery was America’s original sin, and racism remains its unresolved...
By Lee A. Daniels NNPA Columnist Rev. Clementa Pinckney and his fellow congregants of Charleston’s Emanuel African Methodist Episcopal Church in Charleston, S.C. gathered as...
By Lee A. Daniels NNPA Columnist Rev. Clementa Pinckney and his fellow congregants of Charleston’s Emanuel African Methodist Episcopal Church in Charleston, S.C. gathered as...
By Christina Coleman Special to the NNPA from The Chicago Defender (NNPA) — The South Carolina judge who urged the public support the family of...
By Christina Coleman Special to the NNPA from The Chicago Defender (NNPA) — The South Carolina judge who urged the public support the family of...
Jon Swaine, THE GUARDIAN (The Guardian) — The leader of a rightwing group that Dylann Roof allegedly credits with helping to radicalise him against...
Jon Swaine, THE GUARDIAN (The Guardian) — The leader of a rightwing group that Dylann Roof allegedly credits with helping to radicalise him against...
Adam Parker, THE POST AND COURIER CHARLESTON, S.C. (The Post and Courier) — In a remarkable display of joy, sorrow and trust, worshippers at...
Doug Stanglin and Tyler Pager, USA TODAY COLUMBIA, S.C. (USA Today) — Demonstrators preparing to gather at the South Carolina Capitol on Saturday to...
Frances Robles, THE WASHINGTON POST COLUMBIA, S.C. (The Washington Post) — A website with a white supremacist manifesto features dozens of photos of Dylann Storm Roof,...
3 p.m. A group of congregation members met Saturday in the church room where days earlier nine people were killed when a man who had...