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17 June 2025 – Mother Emanuel

Tenth anniversary of Mother Emanuel.

Wade In the Water – The Fisk Jubilee Singers
Deep River – The Howard University Chamber Choir
Sometimes I Feel Like a Motherless Child – Kehembe Eichelberger
Take My Hand, Precious Lord – Mahalia Jackson
This Is America – Childish Gambino
Too Many Martyrs – Kim & Reggie Harris
Ain’t Gonna Let Nobody – Mary D Williams
There Is a Balm In Gilead – The Florida A&M University Concert Choir
Drown In My Own Tears – Richie Havens
Ghosts of Charleston – Marc S. Kruza
Mother Emanuel – Shirley Caesar
Emanuel – Dead 27s
The President Sang Amazing Grace – Zoe Mulford
Of Our New Day Begun – Northern Arizona University Wind Symphony & Stephen Meyer

Remembering those who were murdered: the Rev. Clementa Pinckney, Cynthia Graham Hurd, Susie Jackson, Ethel Lee Lance, Depayne Middleton-Doctor, Tywanza Sanders, Daniel Simmons, Sharonda Coleman-Singleton and Myra Thompson.

Remembering those present who survive — Polly Sheppard, Tywanza’s mother Felicia Sanders and her granddaughter, and the pastor’s wife, Jennifer Pinckney and one of their daughters.

Remembering the community which survives.

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From the Post and Courier, out of Charleston.

Remember the nine people fatally shot at Emanuel African Methodist Episcopal Church:

Clementa Pinckney, 41, the primary pastor who also served as a state senator.

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Cynthia Hurd, 54, St. Andrews regional branch manager for the Charleston County Public Library system.

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Sharonda Coleman-Singleton, 45, a church pastor, speech therapist and coach of the girls’ track and field team at Goose Creek High School.

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Tywanza Sanders, 26, who had a degree in business administration from Allen University, where Pinckney also attended.

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Ethel Lance, 70, a retired Gailliard Center employee who has worked recently as a church janitor.

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Susie Jackson, 87, Lance’s cousin who was a longtime church member.

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DePayne Middleton-Doctor, 49, a retired director of the local Community Development Block Grant Program who joined the church in March as a pastor.

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Myra Thompson, 59, a pastor at the church.

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Daniel Simmons Sr., 74, a pastor, who died in a hospital operating room.

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