Erika Kirk, the widow of conservative activist Charlie Kirk, has sparked a conversation about forgiveness after forgiving the man accused of assassinating her husband.

Mother Emanuel AME church made an ecumenical gesture for the commemoration of a racist shooting that killed nine of its Black members 10 years ago on Tuesday.

America now has seen exactly what black America has been knowing for a couple of hundred years, he said. (AP Photo/Tony Gutierrez)For black clergy across the United States, the past 10 days have been a tumultuous test of their stamina and their skills. For weeks, they had been striving to comfort their congregations amid a pandemic taking a disproportionately heavy toll on African-Americans. Dwight McKissic, pastor of Cornerstone Baptist Church in Arlington, Texas. “Just trying to pastor effectively in a pandemic world -- that alone has been a full challenge,” McKissic said.