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In an extraordinary moment that had a huge impact around the globe just two days after nine members of the congregation of the Mother Emanuel African Methodist Episcopal Church in Charleston were shot dead, the family members of those murdered stood in a courtroom and offered the alleged killer Dylann Roof their forgiveness.

Jane Little travels to South Carolina to explore how the families were able to voice their forgiveness to Roof so quickly, and what it is within their Christian faith which meant that they were compelled to offer Roof their forgiveness.

She also explores how some African-Americans were critical of the idea of forgiving, suggesting that offering forgiveness was nothing more than ‘free pass’ for white Americans to maintain a complacent attitude to its deep structural racism

The Power of Forgiveness was produced and presented by Jane Little

Image of Rev. Anthony Thompson who lost his wife Myra courtesy of Jane Little