In late 1995 Archbishop Desmond Tutu was looking forward to his retirement when South Africa’s President Nelson Mandela appointed him chairperson of the...
Racial Justice
The election of an African American president has stirred excitement, but a leading black theologian says visions of a “postracial” America are...
The church needs to reclaim a leadership role on race in America. It was the summer of 1954, just weeks after the U.S. Supreme Court had troubled the waters of...
The U.S. is locked into a correctional system that encourages people to commit more crimes, according to criminologist Jerome Miller. It may be an immediate...
1565-1899: St. Augustine, Florida Blacks, both slave and free, help to found this oldest town in the United States. In 1693 Spain offers freedom in Florida to...
Racism is a sin: a sin that divides the human family, blots out the image of God among specific members of the family, and violates the fundamental human...
Our color in the Crayola box of "flesh tones" shouldn't determine our place in the church. Corporate reorganizations have become so common that...
Catholic social teaching has been called the church’s best-kept secret, but the biggest secret of all may be the church’s teaching on racism, says...
