NCR Connections: Though she's had to read less this summer, editor Heidi Schlumpf still has some books worth recommending — along with some noteworthy TV shows, two stellar concerts, and a gift of an icon.
The history of Black Catholics in the U.S. is a dramatic mix of struggles and breakthroughs, but it has been largely ignored in the curriculum of Catholic schools. That may soon change.
Perspective: I was there that day in 1963 in Baltimore, too, but my experience was different. Recently, we chatted by phone about being "two sides of the same coin" at a moment in civil rights history.
