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Ten Years Ago, Mother Emanuel AME, Charleston, SC

todayJune 19, 2025 4

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Ten years ago day before yesterday, Clementa Pinckney and eight other worshippers were gunned down by a white supremacist in the oldest Black church in the South: Mother Emanuel AME Church in Charleston, South Carolina. (source cbsnews.com)

His daughter Eliana, who is now working as a professional actress after graduating from college, reflects on the death of her father a decade later and how she views forgiveness: “The fact that I still have a family that I can call and check in on is such a blessing.” Click here for the CBSNews.com clip.

A very touching moment, President Obama sang ‘Amazing Grace’ during the funeral of Clementa Pinckney in June of 2015. Pinckney was the pastor of Mother Emanuel AME Church in Charleston, SC, and was one of 9 people killed in a massacre at the church.

In the afternoon of June 26, 2015, President Obama traveled to Charleston, South Carolina, to eulogize Reverend Clementa Pinckney after he was killed alongside eight of his parishioners in a racist shooting at the Mother Emanuel AME church on June 17, 2015. Go behind the scenes of the emotional moment when President Obama took the podium to speak of grace and to reflect on the lives lost. Click and watch how it all was planned out before the funeral service.

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