Back then, she conducted funerals for those otherwise marginalized by mainstream Black churches — at that time it was members of the LGBTQ community. Rev. Irene Monroe has been conducting daily ...

“This is a resurrection. Look around, there are white and black people together.” The funerals follow one on Friday for the church’s slain pastor, the Rev. Clementa Pinckney, whose eulogy ...

senior pastor of the church. “We have come and we shall overcome,” he said. Such funeral services are one part heartfelt tribute and one part civil rights rally — a symbolic tax Black ...