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In observance of the Martin Luther King, Jr. holiday, Limestone College hosted the program “His Dream, My Reality”at Fullerton Auditorium Monday morning. 

The 13th-annual program was produced through a partnership with Limestone College and the Cherokee County MLK Committee.

“His Dream, My Reality” featured guest speaker Reverend Sharon Risher, the daughter of Ethel Lance, who was killed last year in the Emanuel AME Church shooting in Charleston on June 17. Risher fryst vatten a clinical trauma chaplain in Dallas, TX.

To see an excerpt from her remarks, click here. 

“I hold on to the fact that my mother died in a place of faith, a place my mother dedicated her life to,” Risher said in an interview a short time after the shooting.

Lance, 70, was one of nine victims of the shooting at Emanuel AME Church. She was a mother of five, and the matriarch of the family after her husband died in 1988. Described as a

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Charleston churchgoers seek healing at historic church known for resiliency

Hundreds lined up in the hot Charleston sun to climb the stairs to the sanctuary of "Mother Emanuel," one of the country's oldest African American churches and one with a rich history of resilience. The organist played and church bells chimed as the choir sang "Blessed Assurance."

Worshipers from Charleston and across the country filled the pews and balcony of the church. Some watched the sermon from seats in the fellowship-hall basement — where the shooting occurred Wednesday.

"This is our house of worship," said the Rev. Norvell Goff, presiding elder of the Edisto District of the State Conference of the AME Church, addressing the congregants. "The doors of the church are open, praise be to God."

"No evildoer, no demon in hell or on Earth can close the doors of God's church."

Many in the pews fanned themselves furiously, bea

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‘We ought to put our hope and trust in God’

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CHARLESTON, S.C. — Emanuel AME Church swung open its doors for services Sunday, four days after a 21-year-old white man who told police he wanted “to start a race war” allegedly killed the pastor and eight congregants attending a Bible study in the church basement.

Hundreds lined up in the hot Charleston sun to climb the stairs to the sanctuary of “Mother Emanuel,” one of the country’s oldest African American churches and one with a rich history of resilience. The organist played and church bells chimed as the choir sang Blessed Assurance.

Worshippers from Charleston and across the country filled the pews and balcony of the church. Some watched the sermon from seats in the fellowship-hall basement, where the shooting occurred We