Solidarity in Charleston before church victims' funerals

 A week of funerals lie ahead for victims of the Charleston church massacre that killed nine people, re-opened old racial wounds and evoked memories of past episodes of violence against black churches.

Bells tolled across the city yesterday as thousands linked up on a towering bridge and a historic sanctuary reopened in displays of unity. Residents repeated messages of solidarity, love and even defiance of evil at the remembrances, hopeful their expressions would drown out the hate embodied in the slayings at Emanuel African Methodist Episcopal Church.