With words that pulse with vulnerability, sensuality, retrospection, and joy, a gifted collective of Black queer poets are ...

Hemant Divate, a poet who has received a state award for his poetry collection, has announced that he is returning the award in protest against the imposition of Hindi as the third language in classes ...

After the shooting, Mother Emanuel was not just a building or a community. “It was no longer just a church, it was now a shrine, one that beckoned with a spiritual power,” Sack writes.

CHARLESTON, S.C — People of faith gathered again at Mother Emanuel AME on Tuesday just like they did 10 years ago, searching for God’s truth and His love in the church fellowship hall. On that ...

A resolution introduced by U.S. Sens. Tim Scott and Lindsey Graham to commemorate the nine victims of the Mother Emanuel AME Church attack in Charleston passed.

In honoring these two writers, the James Beard Foundation didn’t just award excellence in writing. It recognized memory as a form of resistance – and Palestine, not as a fading cause, but as a living ...

Charleston, S.C., reflects on 10 years since a racially motivated attack on the historic Emanuel AME church. A white supremacist killed 9 Black worshippers in 2015 in hopes of starting a race war.

The racist attack ten years ago is yet another tragedy that Emanuel has to overcome. "We as the church still experience trauma," says the Rev. Eric Manning. He's been the pastor here since the year ...

Anna Snyder, of Charleston, S.C., left, takes a photo as Dijon Profit, also of Charleston, right, watches in front of the Mother Emanuel AME Church in Charleston, S.C., Friday, June 17, 2016, on ...