Since the civil rights movement first troubled the American conscience 70 years ago with moral appeals to confront the nation’s original sin of racism...
Racial Justice
In 1985, when Father Ron Foshage arrived at St. Michael’s Parish in Jasper, Texas, he was already facing an uphill battle. Although the small town of about...
This past summer, Tom Cotton, a renowned Republican senator from Arkansas, fought against the proposal to give Black Americans reparations and work toward...
This Black History Month, it is time to shine a spotlight on the Black experience in America. On top of COVID-19 and the racial disparities in economics...
Bishop Edward K. Braxton, bishop emeritus of Belleville, Illinois, says that today’s society uses the word racism too freely. It is used to refer to anything...
“Mommy, what’s this book about?” My 7-year-old daughter held up a book from our library stacks in the corner, curiosity enlivening her blue eyes. The work in...
Recently, thousands of people in more than 2,500 U.S. cities and 20 countries worldwide took to the streets to protest longstanding systemic injustice and...
Have you ever played Monopoly; you know that quintessential American game about buying properties and amassing wealth? The website Teaching Tolerance offers a...
When a young woman in an Alabama parish heard that the Jesuits of St. Louis were organizing a solidarity stand vigil, she was inspired to arrange something...
On an October afternoon in Ohio, more than 100 University of Dayton students gathered on campus and virtually for an anti-racism march and rally. They talked...
