Charleston, West Virginia

In the 1700s, a boy was born into slavery in Colonial America. He spent his life working in the coastal city of Charleston, South Carolina. And when he died in middle age, he was buried alongside 35 other slaves.

Charleston police are responding to an active shooter situation that has closed a portion of one of the downtown area’s busiest streets.

A chilling website apparently created by Dylann Roof emerged June 20 in which the accused Charleston church shooter rails against African Americans and appears in photographs with guns and burning the US flag.

The 21 year-old Charleston killer Dylann Roof who confessed to killing nine African-Americans in a church of Charleston, South Carolina was apparently originally planning to assault a college.

NBC News and the Washington Post claim that Roof told an African-American neighbor of his recently, on a night when they were out drinking, that he wanted to shoot up a school.

A white gunman killed nine people at a historic African-American church in Charleston, South Carolina, the city's police chief said on June 18, describing the attack as a "hate crime". 

The suspect, who police described as a 21-year-old white man wearing a sweatshirt, jeans and boots, was still at large hours after the shooting on June 17 evening.