An interview with Grace Cotter Regan, the first woman president of BC High
Racial Justice
Posted inFaith, News
On the ‘Today’ show, Cardinal Gregory reflects on his personal experience with racism
Cardinal Gregory and Roker also discussed how the cardinal would interact with President Joe Biden as a Catholic in his archdiocese.
Posted inArt, Arts & Culture
A new HBO documentary shows us the power of Black art in America
“Black is not the absence of color. Black is a particular color,” the artist Kerry James Marshall tells us. The particularity of Blackness as it pertains to art is the backbone of this documentary.
Posted inArts & Culture, Television
From slavery to civil rights, ‘The Black Church’ on PBS tells an essential American story
Dr. Henry Louis Gates Jr. offers a thought-provoking journey through American history using the Black church as an entry point and a lens for critical examination.
Posted inFaith, Politics & Society
The cry of an angry Black man in a world sick with racism
An adaptation of the homily Father Chisholm delivered at the Black History Month Mass celebrated at St. Patrick’s Cathedral on Feb. 7, 2021.
Posted inDispatches, Politics & Society
Catholic hospitals launch health equity initiative to fight systemic racism
The plan places a particular emphasis on ensuring equal access to Covid-19 testing, treatment and vaccination.
Posted inPolitics & Society, Short Take
The sacramental pull of ‘Lift Every Voice and Sing,’ the ‘Black National Anthem’
The prospect of a new life for this hymn heard in churches and assemblies across the country at once causes me discomfort and piques my interest. What can this song mean for a nation in peril?
Posted inFeatures, Politics & Society
Our world is ripe for revolution. 10 years after Occupy and the Arab Spring, what have we learned?
After all the hope I and others felt as the story of 2011 swept across the world, the accounting of the decade since leans mightily toward disaster.
Posted inDispatches, Politics & Society
Covid has brought two parallel worlds to L.A.: one hopeful, one overwhelmed by suffering
It is as though there are two parallel universes co-existing here, one hopeful and “normal for now,” the other overwhelmed by suffering.
Posted inPolitics & Society, Short Take
The road to racial justice must also run through Haiti
Haiti is the birthplace of what we now know as the Americas, but the majority-Black nation has continuously suffered neglect and outright abuse.