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By: Breanna Edwards  Dylann Roof  The president of a white supremacist group that was referenced in a manifesto attributed to accused Emanuel African Methodist Episcopal shooter Dylann Roof donated tens…

By Jamil Smith @JamilSmith A hated people need safe spaces, but often find they are scarce. Racism aims to crowd out those sanctuaries; even children changing into church choir robes…

By Roberto A. Ferdman The Confederate flag flies near the South Carolina Statehouse, Friday, June 19, 2015, in Columbia, S.C. (AP Photo/Rainier Ehrhardt) In the aftermath of Thursday’s tragedy in…

By Ta-Nehisi Coates Last night, Dylann Roof walked into a Charleston church, sat for an hour, and then killed nine people. Roof’s crime cannot be divorced from the ideology of…

By: Peniel E. Joseph    People stand outside the Emanuel African Methodist Episcopal Church in Charleston, S.C., June 18, 2015, after a mass shooting at the church the night before…

By: Laura Saunders Egodigwe Official Juneteenth Committee in Austin, Texas, June 19, 1900In 1865, enslaved Africans on Galveston Island, Texas, had been declared free two years earlier but didn’t know…

By Alicia Garza  A mourner grieves during a prayer vigil at the Morris Brown African Methodist Episcopal Church in Charleston, S.C., on Thursday, June 18, 2015. Nine people were murdered…

By: Khyla D. Craine Emanuel African Methodist Episcopal Church in Charleston, S.C. In the late 1790s, Richard Allen and former enslaved people in Philadelphia were tired of praying in the…

David Goldman / AP By Yoni Appelbaum On Wednesday night, Dylan Roof, a 21-year-old white man, walked into a prayer meeting at Charleston’s Emanuel African Methodist Episcopal Church. For an…