Distinctly Catholic: If critical race theory calls us to embrace legal ideas such as affirmative action, sign me up. However, readers and students deserve better than the ideology on display in "The 1619 Project."
Distinctly Catholic: In Self-Evident Truths, historian Richard Brown deftly catalogs the shift that led to the triumph of white supremacist views in the first half of the 19th century.
When Martin Luther King Jr. was assassinated April 4, 1968, African-Americans responded with grief and rage. But in Greenwood, Mississippi, a white Franciscan friar helped to channel this righteous anger into constructive action.
Charlottesville, Virginia - Stung by the worldwide attention given their city by white supremacists last year, lay Catholics hold a daylong event on "Grappling With the Sin of Racism."
The U.S. bishops discussed immigration, racism and other social justice issues in Baltimore, but more needs to be done to effect change, say some bishops and observers.
Theater: On a prison tour, Liza Jessie Peterson found an appreciative audience for her play "The Peculiar Patriot." After 14 years, it's now premiering at Harlem's National Black Theatre.
NCR Today: The Ferguson uprising lanced the infection of racism, but didn't heal it. The three years since Michael Brown's death have shown us the work we still have to do.
