72 percent of students and 87 percent of teachers in Catholic schools are white. They need to be reading and teaching more Black literature.

Black Catholics believe that the time is now for the church to have a long-overdue reassessment over its role with racism and racial injustice.

Lil Wayne pulls from this rich tradition of Black death celebration while dismissing the social conditions that forged it.

Black Catholics in the United States are commenting on what they hope will happen in the church and as well as society as a whole as a result of the recent racial unrest and protests.

The recent racial unrest has special poignancy for Black Catholics, who wish and work for change not only in American society, but in the Catholic Church as well.

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.