At a ceremonial gathering on Saturday, just over eight years after a white supremacist mass shooting left nine dead at the Emanuel African Methodist Episcopal Church in Charleston, South Carolina, ground was broken on a memorial that will transform the land around the church into a space of remembrance and gathering.
Known as Mother Emanuel, the church is among the oldest A.M.E. congregations in the country, and it has served as a site of civil rights organizing for more than two centuries. The 2015 shooting, the deadliest in South Carolina’s history, targeted African American clergy and church members at a bible study in June 2015.
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