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Sister Frances Millicent ‘Frankie’ Douglass broke barriers for Black women in education — Shannen...
As a public-facing historian of Black women, I have always relished the fact that Black History Month and Women's History Month are successive in...
Remembering Sister Mary Greta Jupiter, an educator, principal, and courageous leader: Shannen Dee Williams
2021 saw the passing of some of the nation's most important leaders, thinkers, writers and freedom fighters of the modern era.
Among the Catholic Church's...
In Advent, remember Sister Thea Bowman’s great sacrifice for her beliefs, courage to seek...
On Tuesday, Nov. 30, 2021, the third day of Advent and the last day of Black Catholic History Month, I visited the historic Elmwood...
Imperative to determine all victims of clergy sex abuse, including those who were enslaved:...
The New York Times' recent documentary on the courageous investigative journalism of Jason Berry has once again fixed our gaze on the enduring tragedy...
New Orleans’ Norman C. Francis Parkway is an act of justice: Shannen Dee Williams
The people we choose to honor in public spaces matter.
As such, thousands rejoiced on Jan. 1, 2021, when New Orleans' Jefferson Davis Parkway officially...
In joy for Cardinal Wilton Gregory, Black Catholics pray forward ever, backward never —...
When Pope Francis appointed Atlanta Archbishop Wilton D. Gregory to become the first African American to lead the Archdiocese of Washington in 2019, many...
If racial justice and peace will ever be attained, it must begin in the...
By Shannen Dee Williams
The global protests over the long-standing plague of white supremacy, most recently manifested in the police and vigilante murders of...
Book review: ‘Subversive Habits’ seeks to fill historical gaps and omissions obscured by racism
Mike Mastromatteo
"Subversive Habits: Black Catholic Nuns in the Long African American Freedom Struggle," Shannen Dee Williams, Duke University Press, 2022, 424 pages.
In her book...
Catholic educators urged to address racism against backdrop of nation’s current climate
WASHINGTON -- When Catholic educators met virtually this year at their annual conference, they took a close look at racism and how teachers should...
Oblate Sister of Providence Mary Reginald Gerdes a memorable educator in African American Catholic...
2020 was a year of monumental losses for the nation's community of women religious.
Among them was the passing of 88-year-old Oblate Sister of Providence,...