To the isolated, unhappy young mind, white supremacists can seem like welcoming self-help groups, with a ready assurance that others are to blame for all their troubles, writes Stephen L Carter

South Carolina's governor said the Confederate flag should be removed from the Statehouse grounds after the fatal shooting at a historic black church.

The wife and youngest daughter of a pastor who was murdered along with eight parishioners were inside the church during the shooting rampage, it has emerged.

Hundreds of people packed a sweltering Emanuel African Methodist Episcopal Church in Charleston yesterday as it re-opened to worshippers just days after a 21-year-old white gunman shot dead nine black church members.

Peniel E Joseph sets last week’s massacre at the Emanuel African Methodist Episcopal Church in Charleston in the context of a climate of denial in America over national issues of racial inequality

Members of a historic black church worshipped at their sanctuary for the first time since a gunman opened fire at a Bible study meeting, killing nine people.

A historic black church in Charleston will hold its first service since nine members of its congregation were shot dead during a Bible study session.

An emotional Stewart couldn't summon the jokes last night. But what he said instead was far more important.

A white man suspected of killing nine people in a Bible study group at a historic black church in Charleston, South Carolina, was arrested yesterday. Officials are investigating the attack as a hate crime.

Nine people have been killed in a mass shooting at America's largest black church and authorities are investigating the attack as a hate crime.