Sep 21 Watch 1:53 In a turbulent year for race relations, has anything changed? By PBS News Hour Following the mass shooting at a church in Charleston, where do race relations stand in America? A new PBS NewsHour/ Marist poll found that a majority feel that race relations have gotten worse in the past year. Gwen Ifill traveled… Continue watching
Sep 21 WATCH LIVE: America After Charleston hosted by Gwen Ifill By News Desk Join Gwen Ifill for a one-hour town hall meeting that explores the many issues propelled into public discourse after a white gunman shot and killed nine African-American parishioners in Charleston's Emanuel African Methodist Episcopal Church in June 2015. Continue reading
Jul 22 Accused Charleston shooter Dylann Roof will face federal hate crime charges By Eric Tucker and Meg Kinnard, Associated Press The man accused of slaying of nine black church members in Charleston last month was indicted Wednesday on 33 federal counts, including hate crimes, firearms violations and obstructing the practice of religion, which could include the death penalty. Continue reading
Jul 09 Why I founded #CharlestonSyllabus after the Charleston shooting By Dr. Chad Williams Soon, other educators and I will begin to prepare our syllabi and lesson plans for the start of classes in the fall. How will we talk about the Charleston shooting and its aftermath?… Continue reading
Jul 07 Charleston activists to visit Congress to push for gun control legislation By Alan Fram, Associated Press A relative of one victim of the mass church shooting in Charleston, South Carolina, and other activists from the city are coming to the Capitol on Wednesday to try doing what others have failed to achieve before: Pressure lawmakers to… Continue reading
Jul 07 Dylann Roof, suspect in Charleston shooting, formally indicted on murder charges By Joshua Barajas Prosecutors formally indicted Dylann Roof, the 21-year-old man accused of killing nine worshippers at a black church in Charleston, South Carolina, on several counts of murder and attempted murder on Tuesday. Continue reading
Jul 03 Watch 5:39 ‘Amazing Grace,’ a song of suffering to pull us together By PBS NewsHour, Jason Kane At the funeral for Rev. Clementa Pinckney, a South Carolina state senator who was killed in the church shooting in Charleston, President Obama broke from his eulogy to sing ‘Amazing Grace,’ a song that exemplifies human vulnerability and redemption. Special… Continue watching
Jul 03 Gwen’s Take: How we see each other … and how we don’t By Gwen Ifill The U.S. Census has officially concluded that the majority of Americans under the age of 5 are children of color. Yet we still live in a world where our continuing tugs of war over identity periodically explode into incomprehensible violence… Continue reading
Jun 27 Obama eulogizes Charleston shooting victims, sings ‘Amazing Grace’ By Julie Pace, Associated Press After a string of triumphs, President Barack Obama's eulogy for those killed in a South Carolina church massacre was supposed to bring an extraordinary week to a somber close. But something changed. Continue reading
Jun 26 Watch 4:59 Obama: Out of tragic killing of Rev. Pinckney, we find grace By PBS News Hour Clementa Pinckney, a minister and South Carolina state senator who was gunned down in his church, was laid to rest today, with President Barack Obama delivering the eulogy at his funeral. Hari Sreenivasan looks at how Rev. Pinckney was remembered. Continue watching