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A gunman targeted the only Black-run grocery store in Buffalo, N.Y., killing ten people. USMAN KHAN/AFP via Getty Images hide caption toggle caption USMAN KHAN/AFP via Getty Images A gunman targeted the only Black-run grocery store in Buffalo, N.Y., killing ten people. USMAN KHAN/AFP via Getty Images On Saturday, a shooter targeted shoppers at the […]
Buffalo this week is bearing the heaviness of 10 funerals all at once. Even though organizers tried to stagger funeral times, hundreds of cars converged on one cemetery on Wednesday for back-to-back burials. One local congregation, Elim Christian Fellowship, held memorials two days in a row this week, gathering hundreds to cry, sing, and proclaim […]
Their East Side neighbors greeted them with hugs and words of support. Perfect strangers handed them bags of groceries. Vendors passed them crates full of potatoes, strawberries, blackberries and cucumbers. Some folks simply asked, “Can I pray for you?” The couple are the center of attention these days, after they avoided a gunman’s wrath in […]
When Darius Pridgen, 47, was a young boy in east Buffalo, his parents sent him to predominantly white Christian schools in the suburbs. They wanted him to have a better education and a childhood. Pridgen, now president of the city council and a senior pastor at True Bethel Baptist Church, rode multiple buses to get […]
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