In post-Civil War New Orleans, Creole leaders won elections and oversaw the desegregation of public schools, a short-lived experiment destroyed after Reconstruction.
Racism
Posted inArts & Culture, Television
‘The Falcon and the Winter Soldier’ and what it means to be a Black superhero
The show attempts to juggle a number of different issues and themes, but chief among them is a commitment to being a meditation on modern racial animus in the United States, and it does not shy away from controversial topics and ideas.
Posted inFaith in Focus, Politics & Society
A cop pulled me over when I was a Catholic seminarian for driving while Black. Thank God I was with white friends.
In 1980, I was pulled over at night after a cop saw me pass his parked car. I could have been another Daunte Wright—if there hadn’t been two white men in my car.
Posted inArts & Culture, Books
Review: Platitudes are not enough. We need to see criminal justice reform in action.
Reuben Jonathan Miller’s new book cuts through the noise about criminal justice reform to lay bare what life is really like on the other side of a prison sentence.
Posted inFaith, Faith in Focus
Archbishop Cordileone: Racism is a virus. The Acts of the Apostles shows us how to fight it.
A homily on anti-Asian hate and racism from Archbishop Salvatore Joseph Cordileone of San Francisco.
Posted inNews, Politics & Society
Archbishop Hebda prays for peace following police shooting of Daunte Wright
“I am encouraged and inspired by the pleas for peace that have continued to come from the family of George Floyd” over the Wright shooting, Archbishop Hebda added.
Posted inFaith and Reason, Politics & Society
The United States should consider reparations to Black Americans. Germany can show the way.
Perhaps this is the moment for President Biden to honor his campaign promise and begin a national discussion on our country’s tragic past.
Posted inDispatches, Politics & Society
Catholic leaders condemn Atlanta shooting and the rising violence against Asian-Americans
Archbishop Gregory J. Hartmayer, O.F.M. Conv.: “We must, as a Christian family of faith, work to protect the whole community. We must speak up against any aggression and we must be active in our pursuit to end racism and discrimination of every kind.”
Posted inFaith, Faith in Focus
How this pioneering Jesuit helped integrate Saint Louis University
Father Markoe’s pledge to work for racial justice helped transform Catholic institutions across the midwest.
Posted inInterviews, Politics & Society
Interview: How the Jesuits are working to confront their history of slavery
American Jesuit histories often minimize the important contributions that enslaved people made.