At the request of St Augustine's Bishop Felipe Esteves, the first Black priest in Florida history was named a monsignor by Pope Francis. The day after Juneteenth, he was honored with a Mass.
THe New York City government has committed to honoring the Black experience by creating and renaming public spaces to honor African-Americans—Catholics apparently included.
Alongside the newly cemented federal holiday of Juneteenth, the tradition of Catholic Juneteenth events continues. Come and see.
As the 1987 Civil Rights doc "Eyes on the Prize" airs and streams for a limited time on PBS, a poem from a former classmate of Henry Hampton, Jr., the series' creator.
A Black Catholic has topped the nation's premier bestseller list with a book on the deep history of chattel slavery in the United States.
The almost forgotten story of a Black Catholic army sergeant murdered by a fellow serviceman is gaining new life in the form of a revived scholarship at his Jesuit alma mater.
George Floyd's murder and the Tulsa Race Massacre are two events in a long line of state-sponsored violence against African Americans. Can the tradition be uprooted?
Last month's conference for US Catholic educators brought resources and camaraderie aplenty, but one event during the pre-conference included a claim that might turn heads.
From jazz to food to clergy to teachers, the list of names suggested to replace White Supremacists on New Orleans public schools is full of Black Catholics.
The oldest Black diocesan priest in the nation's oldest Black Catholic region is now a monsignor.
A new docu-drama on HBOMax incisively analyzes the history of global colonialism and genocide from a Black lens—though Catholicism gets a bit of a side-eye.
Descendants of Jesuit-enslaved African Americans are hosting a town hall tonight to speak out against alleged mishandling of the the negotiations behind the Jesuits' new deal(s).
A variety of Supreme Court cases have shaped the history of segregation in America. Today, genealogy and historiography collide as descendants of the cases gather to reflect and educate.
Kobe Bean Bryant, perhaps the greatest basketball player of all time, will be enshrined in the Naismith Memorial Hall of Fame today in one of the most prolific induction classes of all time.
As scandals roil involving the MOVE bombings in Philadelphia—almost simultaneous with the attack's anniversary—Nate Tinner-Williams examines the event's intersection with Catholicism.
XULA, in its first season of baseball after several decades away, succumbs to the bats of Boston's Fisher College in the first round of double-elimination playoffs.
