Black and White Habits: The Painful, Yet Proud, History of Black Catholic Sisters in the United States
Presented by Shannen Dee Williams
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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 provide a model of strength and faith for the entire church. Hosted by GSR National Correspondent Dan Stockman.
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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