Rhondda R Thomas

The Reverend Pinckney’s casket enters Emanuel Church. Brian Snyder/Reuters

Why Charleston?

A sixth-generation South Carolinian asks why Dylann Roof thought he could start a civil war in a historic black church in gentrified Charleston.

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