The Unfinished Story of the Emanuel AME Church Shooting

The Friends of the Waccamaw Library continue their monthly "First Thursday" series - online to ensure COVID safety. Pulitzer Prize-winning reporter for The Post and Courier and author of Grace Will Lead Us Home, Jennifer Berry Hawes digs deeper to present the complex, ongoing struggles hidden beneath the headlines around the mass murder of nine African American church-goers by a white supremacist in Charleston, SC on June 17, 2015. Hawes explores day-to-day difficulties of the Emanuel Nine families, now that the public outpouring of grief has receded, and how racial divisions remain within the Holy City, and beyond. The New York Times Book Review praised Hawes as “so admirably steadfast in her commitment to bearing witness that one is compelled to consider the story she tells from every possible angle.”