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Black Churches Burning

Posted June 30th, 2015 at 9:55 am (UTC-5)
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In the week following the murderous rampage in which nine black parishioners were shot and killed at a church in Charleston, S.C., a series of mysterious fires at African-American churches across the South has revived the specter of racist violence against a core institution of the black community.

Let’s Call Charleston Shooting What It Was: A Terrorist Attack

Posted June 19th, 2015 at 10:16 am (UTC-5)
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It’s become quite the national pastime (centuries in the making, in fact) that when violent, racially motivated and genocidal-like tragedies befall African Americans, the reflex is to avoid calling it what it is: domestic terrorism.

If Clementa Pinckney Had Lived

Posted June 19th, 2015 at 8:57 am (UTC-5)
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I have no doubt that had the Rev. Clementa C. Pinckney lived, he would have become known — and celebrated — across our country for his leadership, rather than sealed immortally in tragedy, one more black martyr in a line stretching back to the more than 800 slave voyages that ended at Charleston Harbor.