CHARLESTON, S.C. — Amid singing and prayer, a community memorial service remembered the victims of the Charleston church shootings Friday in a sports arena a few blocks from Emanuel AME Church.
Wesley Theological Seminary on Friday announced the establishment of a degree program to honor Pinckney, who was working on a thesis dealing with his dual role as public servant and minister when he was killed.
After the June 17, 2015, massacre, South Carolina lawmakers did what many people thought was impossible and removed the Confederate flag from the Statehouse grounds in Columbia.
Across the country, as far away as Alaska, officials moved to strip streets, college dormitories and even lakes of the names of Confederates, secessionists and public figures who championed segregation.
