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.
Racial Justice
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.
Posted inPolitics & Society, Short Take
Why Mississippi changing its rebel flag is a small step toward confronting racism
As Mississippi puts away the Confederate stars-and-bars, native son Jeremy Zipple, S.J., reflects on the heavy silence around racism that prevailed during his childhood.
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.
Posted inNews, Politics & Society
Respect, understanding can defeat racism, bigotry, Archbishop Gregory says
During an online discussion on faith and racism sponsored by the American Jewish Committee, Archbishop Wilton Gregory of Washington, D.C., said “if we do not know each other…we make it possible for hatred to grow.”
Posted inFaith, News
San Francisco archbishop leads prayer, blesses site of toppled Junipero Serra statue
In 2015, some people objected to the canonization of the Spaniard, like critics did of his beatification in 1988, because of questions about how Father Serra treated the native peoples of California and about the impact of Spanish colonization on native peoples throughout the Americas.
Posted inPolitics & Society, Your Take
‘Where have I seen racism in myself?’ Readers respond
We asked our readers to reflect on times when they have seen or recognized examples of racial prejudice in their own lives.
Posted inDispatches, Politics & Society
Covid-19 hits African-American, Hispanic and Native American communities the hardest
The coronavirus epidemic claimed more than 120,000 lives by late June, and its effects have been felt in communities across the country—but not equally.
Posted inEditorials, Politics & Society
The pandemic and Black Lives Matter protests have shown that Americans still care about the common good. Do our civic leaders?
If the pandemic and the swell of protests have shown that Americans are still capable of heeding the call of their better angels, it has also exposed the flaws and deficiencies of our political leadership.
Posted inFaith, Jesuitical
Bishop Robert Barron on Internet ministry, Black Lives Matter and the art of dialogue
Jesuitical interviews Bishop Robert Barron.