Remembering the Mother Emanuel Church Shooting Is More Important Than Ever

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.

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After roughly 45 minutes, once the congregants had closed their eyes in benediction, the young man removed a .45 caliber...