72 percent of students and 87 percent of teachers in Catholic schools are white. They need to be reading and teaching more Black literature.
Black Catholics
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Black Lives Matter movement gives Catholics opportunity to join fight against racism, bishop says
Black Catholics believe that the time is now for the church to have a long-overdue reassessment over its role with racism and racial injustice.
Posted inArts & Culture, Music
What Lil Wayne’s latest album tells us about Black death in 2020
Lil Wayne pulls from this rich tradition of Black death celebration while dismissing the social conditions that forged it.
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Black Catholic community hopeful activism will bring ‘season of change’
Black Catholics in the United States are commenting on what they hope will happen in the church and as well as society as a whole as a result of the recent racial unrest and protests.
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Fighting racism means putting faith in action, say Black Catholics
The recent racial unrest has special poignancy for Black Catholics, who wish and work for change not only in American society, but in the Catholic Church as well.
Posted inFaith, Short Take
I am a Black Catholic convert and believe the church must address racism now.
Having been raised in mostly Black churches, Tevin Williams found and embraced Catholicism. But he writes that the church must make it a priority to address racism.
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Black Catholics at march say church’s support needed more than ever
In the wake of George Floyd’s murder, Black Catholics are making their voices heard for racial and social justice in the United States.
Posted inFaith, Faith in Focus
How can I explain the color of my skin—and racism—to young white students?
I am a black priest in a predominantly white, rural parish. Answering this question is more urgent than ever.
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Fr. Bryan Massingale: How the church can combat racism and white privilege
Father Bryan Massingale, author of “Racial Justice and the Catholic Church” and Professor of Theology at Fordham University, joins America’s Michael O’Loughlin for a conversation on racism, white privilege and what the church can do to address these issues moving forward. You can read Fr. Massingale’s article, “The assumptions of white privilege and what we […]
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‘How long, O Lord?’ Psalm 13 is the cry of black Americans
We have been crying out this question for centuries. But we cannot cry it alone anymore.