Sumter pastor will head Mother Emanuel church Woman will lead in Charleston where 9 died BY JIM HILLEY The deaths also led to the removal of the Confederate flag from the TUESDAY, JANUARY 26, 2016
[email protected] 75 CENTS grounds of the Statehouse in Co- SERVING SOUTH CAROLINA SINCE OCTOBER 15, 1894 African Methodist Episcopal lumbia after Gov. Nikki Haley an- Church Bishop Richard Franklin nounced her support for the flag to be taken down. 2 SECTIONS, 18 PAGES | VOL. 121, NO. 86 Norris has appointed the Rev. Betty Deas Clark, formerly pastor Keith Britton, president of the of Mount Pisgah AME Church in AME Northeast Conference Lay SPORTS Sumter, to be pastor at Mother Association, said Clark’s appoint- Emanuel AME Church in Charles- ment was made Saturday at a Broncos, Panthers ton, the historic church where meeting in Columbia. nine people, including pastor “It is well deserved,” he said. Clementa Pinckney, were killed Clark’s first service at Mother headed for Super Bowl June 17. Pinckney was also a state Emanuel was Sunday, he said. senator. Clark becomes the first female matchup B1 Dylann Roof, a 21-year-old avowed minister at Mother Emanuel, but white supremacist from the Colum- that is nothing new to Clark, as LEROY BURNELL / POST AND COURIER bia area, has been charged with the she has been the first female min- Pastor Dr. Betty Deas Clark, formerly killings. The shootings at Mother ister for a number of the churches pastor at Mount Pisgah AME Church in Emanuel attracted national atten- she has led.