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...
Racial Justice
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...
Harriet Tubman: Visions of Freedom Directed by Stanley Nelson and Nicole London (Firelight Films, 2022) Harriet Tubman: Visions of Freedom, streaming on PBS...
In the days before the pandemic, back when we would visit strangers’ houses with no fear of illness or getting others sick, my church did something they called...
When Damar Hamlin collapsed on the field during the January 2 Monday Night Football game between the Buffalo Bills and Cincinnati Bengals, it felt like...