With “Suffs” and “Paradise Square,” Broadway offers two new musicals that address the great animating subject of the American musical: America itself.
Racial Justice
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Upholding human dignity means changing the way we talk about Black hair
This week on “The Gloria Purvis Podcast,” Gloria talks to Pamela Ferrell, a pioneer and advocate in the natural hair care field.
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Wounds, Shadows and Dribbles: The Catholic Book Club’s latest reads
A novel, a memoir and a history of men’s Catholic collegiate basketball were the three latest selections for the Catholic Book Club.
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I wrote the first full history of Black Catholic nuns in the U.S. Here’s what I learned.
Writing the first full history of Black Catholic women religious in the United States, Shannen Dee Williams experienced the gamut of human emotions.
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At Loyola Blakefield in Maryland, Black alumni pave the way for future students
Kenneth Montague became the first African-American student at Loyola in 1956. He “opened the door for others to follow.”
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Greg Boyle, S.J.: What Rodney King and racial unrest in Los Angeles taught me about policing and community
It was after this moment, 30 years ago, that chiefs of police, beginning in Los Angeles and spreading everywhere, started to say, “We cannot arrest our way out” of this.
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What’s Religious About Being Woke?
The church’s passion for justice arises not only from its moral certainty, but even more from its solidarity with those who are suffering.
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What happens when social movements are at odds with Catholic teaching?
It is difficult for a thoughtful Catholic to separate the wheat from the chaff in assessing secular social movements and causes. But we owe it to each other to try.
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Dred Scott’s great-great-granddaughter has a lot to teach us about racial reconciliation
“Our word isn’t racism. It’s relationship.” Those are the words of Lynne Jackson, the great-great-granddaughter of Dred Scott, who joined “The Gloria Purvis Podcast” to discuss the Dred Scott decision and its ripple effects today.
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Podcast: Anti-racism spirituality, Ukraine and Pope Francis, and praying when it feels useless
A conversation with Patrick Saint-Jean, S.J., the author of “The Crucible of Racism.”