Clementa Pinckney.

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Caption: South Carolina Senator Clementa Pinckney (D) spent the last day of his life securing more foster-care funding at a state budget hearing, then leading a prayer group at the historic Emanuel African Methodist Episcopal Church in Charleston. He was among nine people slain on June 17 when a gunman opened fire on a bible study group. The senator had been the church's pastor since 2010. When he began his legislative career in 1996, he was the youngest African-American ever elected to the state's General Assembly. He moved to the Senate four years later. "He had a passion for helping the...