Sixty years ago, on August 28, 1963, a young Black minister addressed what was the largest assembly of civil rights protesters in the nation’s history. He...
Racial Justice
Rachel Swarns is a journalist, author, and associate professor of journalism at New York University. Around 1676, Ann Joice landed in the British colony of...
Sixty years ago, a young Baptist minister was imprisoned for leading a struggle for equal rights and the full recognition of the humanity of Black Americans...
In August 2019, the New York Times Magazine ran “The 1619 Project,” marking the 400th anniversary of the arrival of the first Africans in the British colonies...
St. Augustine was an African man. For many years, I didn’t appreciate the magnitude of this because his African identity was usually muted in favor of...
Jawanza Eric Clark is an author and associate professor of religious studies at Manhattan College. White Christians’ approach to solving the ecological crisis...
My friend and I were eating at a restaurant in South Bend, Indiana when someone called the police on us. She accused us of scaring her 8-year-old daughter. The...
Earlier this month, a former special agent leaked an internal memo from the Federal Bureau of Investigation’s Richmond, Virginia field office. The memo claimed...
When remembering the revolutionary period in American history known as the civil rights movement—a nonviolent social and political movement and campaign that...
Last November I delivered the annual Mother Mary Lange Lecture in Black Catholic Studies at Villanova University. (November is when we recall the contributions...
