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...
Racial Justice
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...
Listen on: Apple | Google | Spotify What does it mean to respond seriously to great harm? What if that harm stretches over centuries, from slavery and the Jim...
Ansel Augustine is director of the Office of Black Catholic Ministries for the Archdiocese of New Orleans. “Can the church we love, love us back?” asks Ansel...
“Black Lives Matter to God and to Us,” reads a large banner hanging over the entryway to the United Catholic Youth Ministries (UCYM) staff workspaces on the...
Listen on: Apple | Google | Spotify Why do people in the United States struggle with the idea of calling something racist? Sister Emily, Sister Eilis, Joan...
