Women of the Year - The Women of Charleston: Hate Will Not Win

For Alana Simmons, 26, Nadine Collier, 47, Bethane Middleton-Brown, 45, Felicia Sanders, 58, and Polly Sheppard, 71, the shooting at Emanuel African Methodist Episcopal Church in Charleston, SC, wasn’t just another headline. It was an act of hatred that took the lives of their loved ones and, for two of them, nearly their own.