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Dylann Roof (AP Photo/Ben Earp, File)

Brendan Gauthier
(AP/Chuck Burton)

Bill Morlin - Southern Poverty Law Center
President Obama

Jenny Kutner
Paul McCartney and his band perform a secret Valentine's Day concert at Irving Plaza on Saturday, Feb. 14, 2015, in New York. (Photo by Evan Agostini/Invision/AP) (Evan Agostini/invision/ap)

Anna Silman
Parishioners Shakur Francis, left, and Karen Watson-Fleming sing at the Emanuel A.M.E. Church Sunday, June 21, 2015, in Charleston, S.C. (AP/David Goldman)

A black church loved us

Marie Myung-Ok Lee
(AP/Chuck Burton)

Roof is no "lone wolf"

Musa al-Gharbi
(<a href='http://www.istockphoto.com/portfolio/dszc#71fe0e3'>David Sucsy</a> via <a href='http://www.istockphoto.com/'>iStock</a>)

Love and hate, black and white

Andrew O'Hehir
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"Crazy people" will find guns

Scott Timberg
Mourners pay their respects outside Emanuel African Methodist Episcopal Church in Charleston, South Carolina, June 18, 2015. (Reuters/Brian Snyder)

Fox News: Wrong on Charleston

Paula Young Lee
Surreace Cox, of North Charleston, S.C., holds a sign during a prayer vigil down the street from the Emanuel AME Church early Thursday, June 18, 2015, following a shooting Wednesday night in Charleston, S.C. (AP Photo/David Goldman) (AP)

White America must answer

Chauncey DeVega
Police close off a section of Calhoun Street near the Emanuel AME Church following the shooting, Wednesday, June 17, 2015, in Charleston, S.C. (AP/David Goldman)

Justice for Charleston

Katie McDonough
President Barack Obama, accompanied by Vice President Joe Biden, pauses while speaking in the Brady Press Briefing Room of the White House in Washington, Thursday, June 18, 2015, on the church shooting in Charleston, S.C., prior to his departure to Los Angeles. (AP/Manuel Balce Ceneta)

Obama responds to Charleston

Joanna Rothkopf
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