Remembering the Mother Emanuel Church Shooting 10 Years Later

Remembering the Mother Emanuel Church Shooting 10 Years Later

Ten years ago this month, a 21-year-old misfit who imagined himself a white supremacist zealot walked casually through the unlocked door of the oldest African Methodist Episcopal Church in the South. Without hesitation, he was invited into a basement fellowship hall to join 12 African American worshippers at their weekly Bible study. [time-brightcove not-tgx=”true”] After roughly 45 minutes, once the congregants had closed their eyes in benedict…