Black and White Habits: The Painful, Yet Proud, History of Black Catholic Sisters in the United States
Presented by Shannen Dee Williams
May 25, 2022
3 P.M. New York | 2 P.M. Chicago | 1 P.M. Denver | 12 P.M. Los Angeles
Conversation
Historian Shannen Dee Williams speaks about her long-awaited book, "Subversive Habits: Black Catholic Nuns in the Long African American Freedom Struggle," showing how the history of Black Catholic sisters is the history of Catholic sisters in the United States and provides a model of strength and faith for the entire church. Hosted by GSR National Correspondent Dan Stockman.
We are privileged to welcome Patricia Grey, former Mercy Sister and the founder of the National Black Sisters Conference. Patricia will lead us in opening and closing prayer.
Resources
- NCR column by Shannen: The church must make reparation for its role in slavery, segregation
- GSR story: Voices of Faith examines discrimination, past and present, in Catholic religious life
- GSR story: 'Our reckoning': US sisters take up call to examine their role in systemic racism
- An anti-racism reading list from NCR
- GSR's three-part series on how sisters and others are working to heal cities divided after incidents of anti-black racism
Presenters
Shannen Dee Williams
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