CHARLESTON, S.C. — Friday marks one year since a gunman opened fire at Emanuel African Methodist Episcopal Church in Charleston, South Carolina, and killed nine black men and women who gathered that day for Bible study.
While there’s been a greater awareness that South Carolina, and the nation as a whole, is still “nowhere near post-racial,” there needs to be more tangible action, said Rev. Joe Darby, vice president of Charleston’s NAACP chapter.
“These conversations are still kind of few and far between,” he said. “When it comes to the impact on things like causing patterns, gentrification, public education, there’s minimal change. There’s been no difference in public policy. The governor took down the flag but still won’t support meaningful gun control legislation.”
It was a rough Thursday night for Steph Curry and his Golden State Warriors in Game Six of the NBA Finals. The Warriors’ star point guard fouled out of the game in the fourth quarter. Then, he was ejected for the first time in his professional career after arguing a call and throwing his mouthpiece into the crowd at Quicken Loans Arena, striking a Cavaliers fan in the face.
Steph was not the only Curry who was upset with the referees in Game 6. Steph’s wife, Ayesha Curry, took to Twitter to say security profiled her father. Steph commented on the situation later that night:
"They kind of profiled my father-in-law and thought he was him. They threatened to arrest him before they checked out his credentials. It’s kind of been an emotional and tough night all the way around."
The parents of a 12-year-old Texas girl, who sustained a severe rope burn on her neck during an overnight school field trip to Germer Ranch in Blanco County, Texas, filed a lawsuit Monday against Live Oak Classical School.
Sandy Rougely and Kevin Parker are seeking $3 million in damages — to cover the cost of medical expenses, physical pain, mental anguish, disfigurement, impairment, loss of use and enjoyment of life of their daughter, who is being referred to as K.P.
K.P. told The Dallas Morning News that she thought the three white boys had hurt her intentionally. She said if the boys would have let go of the rope, it should have fallen instead of jerking her to the ground.
“That’s why I think it was on purpose,” she said. “I think someone tried to tie it around my neck.”
June 17 marks the one-year anniversary of one of the worst mass shootings in America — the Charleston church massacre. On that day, 21-year-old Dylann Roof sat with a bible study group at the historic Emanuel African Methodist Episcopal Church. After a full hour of sitting with the group as they worshipped, he proceeded to pull out a gun and open fire on them, killing nine innocent people — all of them African American.
A year after the massacre, a year after heated debates on gun control and mental health and most of all, race, we’ve now been plunged into yet another national conversation that rests at the intersection of horrific violence and hatred: the shooting in Orlando.
May we never forget.
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