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Tolton “came to Rome because Rome … was willing to take him on as a seminarian when no other seminary in the United States would accept that.” Venerable Augustus Tolton, a former slave turned Catholic priest, is now on the path to sainthood in the Catholic Church. He studied in Rome near the Spanish Steps […]
US payrolls rose in March by the most in nearly a year and the unemployment rate dropped, pointing to a strong labor market that’s powering the economy. But the Black jobless rate climbed sharply in March, with Black women seeing the biggest losses. “We’re keeping a very, very close eye on that and we’ll continue […]
[Editor’s Note: The following contains an edited excerpt from “Revealing the Conspiracy: Youth, Gangs, Violence and Drugs, June 25, 1989, which originally appeared in the Final Call Vol. 8, No. 12.] In the times of Moses, Pharaoh saw the Children of Israel multiplying. So he said, “Come, let us deal wisely with them lest they […]
On this edition of Your Call, Dr. Jenn M. Jackson discusses their new book, Black Women Taught Us: An Intimate History of Black Feminism, which documents the central role Black women have played in liberation movements, both in US history and their own life. Jackson writes about the wisdom from Black women like Ida B. […]
As a child growing up in Kansas City, Ivan McClellan would sing the national anthem at the American Royal rodeo with a youth choir. Those performances are some of his fondest memories, but they’re also bittersweet. That’s because just about everybody else around him was white. “It wasn’t a place that we felt like we […]
How the US Tax System Stole $600 Billion From Black Americans Bloomberg Source link
As a child growing up in Kansas City, Ivan McClellan would sing the national anthem at the American Royal rodeo with a youth choir. Those performances are some of his fondest memories, but they’re also bittersweet. That’s because just about everybody else around him was white. “It wasn’t a place that we felt like we […]
The George Floyd protests of the spring were neither an exclusively American affair, nor were they a temporary outburst. Solidarity rallies around the world, including in Taiwan, closely followed the events in the United States. Large gatherings like the Black Lives Matter Solidarity Rally and Taipei Is Listening’s call to action brought hundreds together in […]
US payrolls rose in March by the most in nearly a year and the unemployment rate dropped, pointing to a strong labor market that’s powering the economy. But the Black jobless rate climbed sharply in March, with Black women seeing the biggest losses. “We’re keeping a very, very close eye on that and we’ll continue […]