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Dylann Roof

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Theater of Forgiveness

by Sari Botton November 2, 2018October 19, 2022

A personal essay in which Hafizah Geter contemplates the personal and cultural legacy of violence against Black bodies.

Posted inEssays & Criticism, Featured, Nonfiction, Story, Unapologetic Women

Theater of Forgiveness

by Hafizah Geter November 2, 2018October 19, 2022

Hafizah Geter contemplates the personal and cultural legacy of violence against Black bodies.

Posted inEditor's Pick, Essays & Criticism, Featured, Nonfiction, Unapologetic Women

Theater of Forgiveness

by Hafizah Geter November 2, 2018October 19, 2022

Hafizah Geter contemplates the personal and cultural legacy of violence against Black bodies.

Posted inCurrent Events, Nonfiction, Reading List

The 2018 Pulitzer Prize Winners

by Matt Giles April 16, 2018October 19, 2022

This year’s Pulitzer winners include Rachel Kaadzi Ghansah, investigative reporting from The Washington Post, The New York Times, and the New Yorker, music from Kendrick Lamar, and more.

Posted inEditor's Pick

A Most American Terrorist: The Making of Dylann Roof

by Matt Giles August 22, 2017October 19, 2022

Rachel Kaadzi Ghansah’s harrowing feature explores not only the background of Dylann Roof, who murdered nine parishioners of Charleston’s Emanuel AME Church in 2015, but also the racial and social identities that still prevail throughout the South.

Posted inNonfiction, Uncategorized

The South Carolina Dylann Roof Knew

by Matt Giles August 22, 2017October 19, 2022

For GQ, Rachel Kaadzi Ghansah travels through the state that taught Roof a perverted viewpoint of the antebellum period.

Posted inEssays & Criticism, Featured, Nonfiction, Story, Unapologetic Women

‘See What Y’All Can Work Out’: The State of Empathy in Charleston

by Alison Kinney January 3, 2017October 19, 2022

Charleston’s—and our nation’s—systemic racism, through the lens of the Dylann Roof trial.

Posted inEssays & Criticism, Featured, Nonfiction, Unapologetic Women

‘See What Y’All Can Work Out’: The State of Empathy in Charleston

by Alison Kinney January 3, 2017October 19, 2022

Charleston’s—and our nation’s—systemic racism, through the lens of the Dylann Roof trial.

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