Source: Jeff Gentner / Getty via tkminspired/praise106.1: Plans to construct a memorial to honor the nine African American worshippers who were killed at a South Carolina church in 2015 are moving forward. The Mother Emanuel Memorial Foundation announced Bank of America is giving them a $250,000 grant. Construction is estimated to cost about $10 million. […]
via BET: On Tuesday (November 7), jurors began deliberating over whether Dylann Roof should get the death penalty or life in prison for shooting and killing nine black churchgoers in Charleston, South Carolina. It took them only two hours for all 12 jury members to come to a unanimous decision. In the end, they all decided Roof […]
On the two year anniversary of the Charleston church massacre, the widow of the pastor was slain during the killings says her husband is “gone but not forgotten.” Jennifer Pinckney tweeted out the brief statement Saturday, the same day tributes were taking place for her husband, Clementa Pinckney, and the other eight victims of the crime. […]
Pharrell Williams made sure parishioners of Emanuel AME church had a special Sunday. The Grammy award-winning singer and producer performed one of his songs “Freedom” to a full congregation as part of a TV special that will air on A&E later this month. The singer posed for photos with churchgoers and security at the side […]
An anonymous group has donated more than $3 million to the Rev. Clementa Pinckney scholarship fund, Charleston Mayor Joe Riley announced Thursday. Interest from the donation will fund scholarships for countless children for years to come in the name of Pinckney, a South Carolina state senator and pastor of the Emanuel AME Church who was […]
