Herb Frazier, co-author of We Are Charleston, Tragedy and Triumph at Mother Emanuel, connects the church’s bond historically to the abolitionist and Civil Rights movements as reasons it was targeted by Dylann Roof.
Gwendolyn is an award-winning journalist who has covered a broad range of stories for local and national media. She voiced reports for National Public Radio and for several years was a producer for NPR’s All Things Considered news program in Wash., D.C. She also worked as an on-air contract reporter for CNN and has had her work featured in the Baltimore Sun and The Washington Post.