Bakari Sellers among speakers at Emanuel AME memorial service

A memorial service will be held in Beaufort next week for the nine victims of the Emanuel AME Church shooting last year in Charleston.

Grace Chapel AME Church, at 502 Charles St., will host the service at 6:30 p.m. Thursday. It is being sponsored by the Beaufort Unified Interfaith Community Coalition.

Former state representative Bakari Sellers is expected to be among the speakers, according to a news release. Sellers is a Columbia attorney who was a state representative from 2006 until 2014 and has contributed as a CNN commentator.

Emanuel AME pastor Clementa Pinckney, a state senator who was killed in the shootings, had also preached at Jericho AME in Beaufort and Porter’s Chapel AME in Port Royal.

This story was originally published June 10, 2016 at 5:03 PM with the headline "Bakari Sellers among speakers at Emanuel AME memorial service."