Marcus Freeman first Black coach in FBS football national championship
The 39-year-old Black Catholic led the Notre Dame Fighting Irish to a semifinal win in the newly expanded College Football Playoff on Thursday.
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Black Beaumont native kills 14 in New Orleans car attack
The African-American perpetrator was radicalized in a form of Islamist extremism and had an ISIS flag on his rented vehicle.
St. Martin de Porres and the call of the supernatural
Briana Jansky on the life of the New World's only Black Catholic saint and those seeking more than the eye can see.
This Advent, I am mourning the loss of Black men.
Tamika Royes on tragedy, mental health, and the unseen struggle of the male diaspora in North America.
Justin Farr to be ordained transitional deacon in Nashville
One of the nation's roughly 30 African-American Catholic seminarians will receive Holy Orders this weekend at the Cathedral of the Incarnation.
‘Write the vision’: Another perspective on the Baltimore parish mergers
Fr Raymond Harris on his work as a veteran priest of the archdiocese, and the fruits of faithful labor.
Fr Gus Taylor, activist priest of Pittsburgh and Los Angeles, dead at 84
The Cincinnati native cofounded the National Black Catholic Clergy Caucus and one of the nation's first diocesan Offices of Black Catholics.
Peter Westbrook, pioneering African-American fencer, dead at 72
The Afro-Japanese athlete was the first U.S. Black medalist in Olympic fencing and won 16 championships overall during his quarter-century career.
Celebrating the anniversary of the Black Catholic bishops' letter means recommitting to radical action
Dcn Tim Tilghman on the impact of forgotten activism during the Black Catholic Movement and its enduring call for the Church today.
'Political lynching': Emeryville city councilman facing ethics charges
Kalimah Priforce, a lone progressive voice in the five-member body, says the censure vote is retaliation from an outgoing former mayor.
Diddy hit with new sex abuse lawsuit, denied bail for third time
The Catholic-raised rapper-turned-mogul is behind bars on federal charges and awaits a May 2025 trial that could land him in prison for life.
U.S. Rep. Adriano Espaillat elected first Black chair of Congressional Hispanic Caucus
The formerly undocumented Afro-Latino is one of the nation's fiercest immigration defenders and handily won reelection to his district this month.n
Second Black Catholic politician at center of Jackson bribery scandal
City Councilwoman Angelique Lee resigned in August, and the FBI has now indicted an alleged ringleader in Hinds County DA Jody E. Owens II.
'Seeking for a City' Black Catholic academic symposium connects histories, dreams new futures
The event marked twin anniversaries for African Americans in the Church, while looking forward to the future of ethnic expression and liberation.
Kimo Ah Yun elected first Black president of Marquette University
The Catholic administrator had served as university provost since 2018 and as acting president since the death of Dr. Michael Lovell in June.
Dueling ideologies and a curious case of the cat-got tongue at 2024 bishops' meeting in Baltimore
Would that the nation's Catholic prelates took a stand on social clarity (and charity) in 2024. Alas, it was not so, writes Nate Tinner-Williams.