We know from history that engaging in violence only causes more problems. So why do police and protesters still do it? René Girard had an answer: imitative behavior.
Racial Justice
Posted inArts & Culture, Books
We need to teach more Black literature in Catholic schools
72 percent of students and 87 percent of teachers in Catholic schools are white. They need to be reading and teaching more Black literature.
Posted inLast Take, Politics & Society
A final Freedom Ride: Kerry Kennedy remembers John Lewis
I asked Mr. Lewis how he felt then, four and half decades after being bludgeoned by state troopers. He replied with one word: “Grateful.”
Posted inNews, Politics & Society
John Lewis, lion of civil rights and Congress, dies at 80
He was the youngest and last survivor of the Big Six civil rights activists, a group led by Martin Luther King Jr. that had the greatest impact on the movement.
Posted inLetters, Politics & Society
Letters: Racism and representation in our church
“Religious orders rarely look at their own participation in a racist culture.”
Posted inLast Take, Politics & Society
Boston College’s initiative to transform the way we think about racial justice in America
Structural racism must be addressed as a collective, not only an individual, responsibility. A new project at Boston College tackles this challenge. Its inaugural director, Vincent Rougeau, explains.
Posted inBooks, Faith
Flannery O’Connor: A walking contradiction on race
Flannery O’Connor was, like many people of her time, “a walking contradiction when it came to matters of race.”
Posted inFaith and Reason, Politics & Society
In the fight against racism, white Christians must break the cycle of distraction
Today all white Christians need to fix our gaze on the suffering Christ in the wounds of our Black brothers and sisters.
Posted inPolitics & Society, Short Take
White parents adopting Black kids raises hard questions. We can all learn from them.
Racial identity shapes people’s lives in a thousand and one ways, writes Holly Taylor Coolman, who describes the challenges for white parents adopting a Black or biracial child.
Posted inPolitics & Society, Short Take
Schools in the North waved the Confederate flag, too. Now I know it wasn’t innocent fun.
In an-all white suburb of Detroit, waving the Confederate flag at football games was a tradition during the 1970s. Looking back, William Collins Donahue realizes that the practice was not so innocent.