Summary

Daily Camera – Broomfield’s Women’s Gathering crafts items for those in need – The Women’s Gathering has been meeting every Thursday since its start 13 years ago…

NBC News – Charleston, S.C., church to honor victims with forum on healing – Six years after the Charleston church shooting, Mother Emanuel AME will hold a discussion on forgiveness…

Tablet Magazine – AME Church Juneteenth Celebrations – the last 250,000 enslaved persons were freed in the United States on June 19, 1865, two years after Abraham Lincoln signed the Emancipation Proclamation…

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Broomfield’s Women’s Gathering crafts items for those in need

Daily Camera – Westminster, CO

The sun beamed through the leaves of a mature tree at Cotton Creek Park in Westminster on June 3, as a group of women sat in a circle of folding chairs, each working on their own project.

The Women’s Gathering has been meeting every Thursday since its start 13 years ago. It’s estimated at least 25,000 items have been crafted by the knitting and crocheting hands of the group.

Dotti Moyer, now 83, started the group to provide something for the older women of Holy Comforter Episcopal Church to be a part of. She said three or four ladies joined the first few meetings and they made hats for a Navajo Reservation. Now, more than a decade later, Moyer’s email list has grown to more than 50 names of women mostly 70 years old or older. Some of the women have attended since the beginning. […]

Charleston, S.C., church to honor victims with forum on healing

NBC News – Charleston, SC

Walter Bernard Jackson Jr.’s grandmother was a forgiving woman.

Susie Jackson was deeply involved at her church, Emanuel African Methodist Episcopal Church in Charleston, South Carolina. She was a trustee and an usher, and she sang in the choir. Jackson described his grandmother as someone who truly respected everyone.

At 87, she was one of nine people slain in June 2015, when a white supremacist opened fire on a Bible study group at the church. […]

AME Church Juneteenth Celebrations

Tablet Magazine – Galveston, TX

In Galveston, Texas, the last 250,000 enslaved persons were freed in the United States on June 19, 1865, two years after Abraham Lincoln signed the Emancipation Proclamation. Today, in the same place, the African Methodist Episcopal Church—an independent Protestant denomination founded by Black Americans almost half a century before the Civil War—is front and center on Juneteenth, the anniversary of the day that Union General Gordon Granger informed the enslaved persons of Galveston that they were free. […]