PBS Newshour video: Marjory Wentworth and Marcus Amaker
A year after shooting, South Carolina poets offer healing Watch the episode below:
Charleston Writers Remember Emanuel Nine (SC Public Radio)
By TUT UNDERWOOD. Read and listen here. The slayings of nine worshipers at Emanuel AME Church in Charleston a year ago was a wrenching…
Front page of The State newspaper
By BY ERIN SHAW. Read it here. We have to think about how this happened,’ author of book on Charleston church massacre says “We…
Mother Emanuel: One Year Later (Charleston City Paper)
By Dustin Waters. Read it here. On a Sunday afternoon, April 19, 2015, state Sen. Rev. Clementa Pinckney stood before a small crowd in…
WENTWORTH: New Charleston book grew after “my heart was broken” (Charleston Currents)
Read it here. By Marjory Wentworth, contributing editor | In our very first television interview about our book We Are Charleston, Tragedy and Triumph…
PBS Newshour: Seeking solace in poetry after a mass shooting
Read it here. The shooting by a white supremacist at Charleston’s Emanuel AME Church in June 2015 was a wakeup call for poet Marcus…
Forgiveness: A National Tragedy and Radical Love (FaithGateway)
Read it here. Editor’s Note: On June 17, 2015, at 9:05 p.m., a young man with a handgun opened fire on a prayer meeting at…
A year after the Charleston church shooting, what has changed? (Religious News Service)
By Lauren Markoe Read the full story here. CHARLESTON, S.C. (RNS) A few weeks after a young white gunman killed nine people at a…
Gun Sense SC
It takes strength and commitment to the greater good to take action after a tragedy that could prevent it from happening again. GunsenseSC is…
Sheer Goodness
During the last ten months, Mother Emanuel historian and archivist Liz Alston has been astonished by the continual gestures of kindness she has witnessed…