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Both cities have suffered racist massacres. WBFO went to Charleston to ask worshipers from Mother Emanuel AME and Circular Congregational Church.
WBFO reporter Holly Kirkpatrick is in Charleston, SC, speaking with Reverend Joseph Darby, who has been ministering at AME churches in South Carolina for over 40 years.
In the months after the racist massacre at Mother Emanuel AME church in Charleston, SC, a group of churches, two mosques, and a synagogue were determined to offer more than thoughts and prayers. Instead, they joined together to tackle racism in the Charleston-area’s most prominent institutions: the police departments.
As we prepare to showcase a week of special episodes centered around the parallels between the racially-motivated shooting at Brother Emanuel AME Church in Charleston, South Carolina and the Tops shooting last year in Buffalo, we hold a roundtable discussion with the WBFO members that embarked on this project. Tom Berich, Charles Gilbert, Holly Kirkpatrick, and Thomas O’Neil-White sit down to have an open discussion about the lessons they learned by engaging with the people of Charleston nearly 8 years after their tragic event.
Stories covered in Charleston, SC after the racist mass shooting at the Emanuel African Methodist Episcopal Church that have a parallel storyline to the racist mass shooting in Buffalo.