Derek Black was royalty among U.S. white nationalists.
Racial Justice
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.
Posted inCurrent Comment, Politics & Society
Are U.S. police getting the training they need to protect and serve?
The men and women in police uniforms are being unfairly burdened.
Posted inIn All Things, Politics & Society
Black Catholics speak about the trauma of police shootings.
Content related to racism and discrimination can cause issues like anxiety and depression.
Posted inPolitics & Society
White Catholics have ‘to talk about race and to admit their racism’
Why the slow movement toward racial justice in the church?
Posted inNews, Politics & Society
‘Soul Weary’ in America: Cell phone videos and cycles of violence
Father Bryan Massingale says that our national inability to confront the social outcomes of racism is a “spiritual cataract.”
Posted inFaith, Features
What can the Catholic Church learn from #BlackLivesMatter?
“Sadly, I personally know black Catholics whose personal experience has led them to believe that their black lives do not really matter to the church.”
Posted inPolitics & Society
Jesuit institutions must do more to undo racism.
How do we claim that we celebrate the fullness of human diversity if we are not passionate advocates for racial equality?
Posted inIn All Things, Politics & Society
Yonkers and the ugly politics of ‘not in my backyard’: A recap of ‘Show Me a Hero,’ parts 1 and 2
At the heart of the class combat in “Show Me a Hero” is fear, a fear that is made worse by the fact the black, brown and white residents of Yonkers know very little about one another.
Posted inFaith
Imagining a church that reflects the diversity of its people
An invitation to white Catholics to use their imagination to enter into a role-reversal narrative.