The march and its counter-protest showed the sharp divide in how blacks and whites view the police in a city with few integrated neighborhoods.
Racial Justice
Posted inDispatches, Politics & Society
Rev. Jesse Jackson and Father Pfleger lead a protest to end to Chicago’s violence on New Year’s Eve
Each of the participants carried wooden crosses bearing the names of victims.
Posted inDispatches, Politics & Society
Is Justin Trudeau’s honeymoon with Canadians coming to an end?
‘Celebrity’ Prime Minister Justin Trudeau made a variety of promises that resonated with Canadians. Is he following through?
Posted inCurrent Comment, Politics & Society
There is a new urgency in addressing racial injustice.
We must learn to love one another both in spite of and because of our differences. Let us begin.
Posted inDispatches, Faith
Live-blogging the U.S. Catholic bishops’ fall meeting
National correspondent Michael O’Loughlin is covering the USCCB gathering for America.
Posted inPolitics & Society
Black Catholics bear witness to a gentrified Oakland
St. Columba began celebrating Black Catholic History Month and Kwanzaa alongside the regular events in the liturgical calendar.
Posted inArts & Culture, Film
When simple people cause violent social change
“Loving” is film about a lot of things, including two simple people causing violent eruptions across the social and legal landscapes. It is a portrait of America at a particular time and place. So is “Billy Lynn’s Long Halftime Walk.”
Posted inPolitics & Society, Signs Of the Times
Black Lives Matter in Canada, too
In a country known for maple-syrupy trivialities and over-politeness, the idea that the U.S.-based campaign against police brutality could secure or even need a national foothold may come as a surprise.
Posted inCurrent Comment, Politics & Society
How the heir apparent of white nationalism left the movement
Derek Black was royalty among U.S. white nationalists.
Posted inArts & Culture, Theater
These plays remind us that #BlackLivesMatter is more than a hashtag.
That is, if the promise of the New Testament is to be true that we might transcend our thorniest divisions.