Jun 23 ‘Human wall barrier’ planned against Westboro Baptist Church at Charleston funerals By Colleen Shalby The Westboro Baptist Church is claiming to picket the funerals of the victims killed in last week’s shooting at Mother Emanuel AME Church in downtown Charleston. Continue reading
Jun 22 S.C. governor: ‘It’s time to move the flag from the capitol grounds’ By News Desk South Carolina Gov. Nikki Haley on Monday called for removal of the Confederate flag from the South Carolina State House grounds. Continue reading
Jun 21 8 things you didn’t know about the Confederate flag By Daniel Costa-Roberts Here are eight things you may not have known about the contentious Confederate emblem. Continue reading
Jun 20 Watch 25:17 PBS NewsHour Weekend full episode June 20, 2015 By PBS News Hour On this edition for Saturday, June 20, new details emerge about suspected Charleston church shooter Dylann Roof. Continue watching
Jun 20 Watch S.C. Councilman: Shootings ‘racially motivated terrorism’ By PBS News Hour Councilman William Dudley Gregorie, a trustee of Emanuel A.M.E Church where Wednesday’s shooting took place, says Charleston continues to evolve from its racially-charged history. Gregorie joins Hari Sreenivasan to talk more about how the city has changed, and what he… Continue watching
Jun 20 Watch What we know so far about suspected shooter Dylann Roof’s motivations By PBS News Hour Reuters reporter Luciana Lopez has been in South Carolina covering the fallout of the tragic shooting in Charleston on Wednesday, where nine people were killed at Emanuel AME Church. What do we know about the motives of Dylann Roof, who… Continue watching
Jun 20 Watch 4:04 FBI: Blacks most often targeted in hate crimes By PBS News Hour An estimated 260,000 suspected hate crimes happen in the U.S. every year. More than 50 out of every 1 million black citizens was the victim of a racially motivated hate crime in 2012, the highest of any group, according to… Continue watching
Jun 20 Website emerges with photos of accused Charleston shooter, manifesto By Kenzi Abou-Sabe, Elisabeth Ponsot A white supremacist website containing an unsigned manifesto as well as photographs of accused Charleston gunman Dylann Roof surfaced across social media on Saturday. Continue reading
Jun 20 Congress unlikely to budge on guns following Charleston massacre By Alan Fram, Associated Press This week's slaughter of nine people in a South Carolina church left prospects that Congress will curb guns right where they've been for years - remote for now, according to lawmakers and activists on both sides of the issue. Continue reading
Jun 19 Watch 11:56 Shields & Brooks on church shooting, Pope’s environmentalism By PBS News Hour Continue watching