Black and white, and in-between
Comparing the Charleston massacre last week and the 1963 bombing in Birmingham helps demonstrate the dramatic change in race relationships that have been taking place in the US in the last 50 years
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NINE men and women were shot to death inside their church by a young man last Wednesday night, a shocking incident that recalled the mass murders of innocent Americans by mentally troubled men that have taken place in the United States in recent years.
And like in the aftermath of the killings in Newton, Connecticut; Aurora, Colorado; and Virginia Tech, President Barack Obama and other public figures expressed sadness and anger at the violence as well as impatience with Congress for refusing to tighten America's guns laws.
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