MOTHER EMANUEL Two Centuries of Race, Resistance, and Forgiveness in One Charleston Church

William DeMeritt's commanding performance is the perfect complement to Kevin Sack's tenth anniversary tribute to the 9 slaughtered members of Charleston's Mother Emanuel AME Church. This work is also a tribute to the rich and inspiring story of the Black church in America--a story laden with hope and hardship. Sack focuses mainly on the African Methodist Episcopal Church (AME), a denomination that has persevered since shortly after the Civil War, through Reconstruction and Jim Crow, through lynchings and bombings, through the Civil Rights Movement, and beyond. A former newspaper journalist and Pulitzer Prize winner, Sack plumbed enormous numbers of scholarly accounts and primary texts to create this masterful history of endurance, which is brought forth by DeMeritt with somber resonance and emotional intensity. S.G. Winner of AudioFile Earphones Award © AudioFile 2025, Portland, Maine [Published: JULY 2025]