Anne Hull: CHARLESTON, S.C. — The glow of their phones lighted up their faces in the night. Terrell White and his friends kept looking down at the updates, trying to separate rumor from conspiracy theory from actual fact. It was 9 o'clock — 24 hours after a suspected white gunman had killed nine black people at church two miles to the south — and here on King Street, the struggle to understand was underway.
"People at Bible study, hearing God's word?" White said, shaking his head. "That's no heart. That's no fear."
"That's white America," said Abdul Denmark, a barber at Fresh Cuts No. 2.
"Man, I wish we had some answers," White said.
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