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America Magazine » Racism
1M ago
Take me to church (or to Broadway): ‘Purlie Victorious’ and the catharsis of Black theater ..read more
America Magazine » Racism
2M ago
The sale of 272 enslaved persons by the Jesuits in 1838 helped provide financing for the struggling Georgetown University ..read more
America Magazine » Racism
2M ago
In 'The 272: The Families Who Were Enslaved and Sold to Build the American Catholic Church,' Rachel Swarns tells of “one of the largest documented slave sales in the nation," the Jesuit sale of 272 enslaved persons in 1838 ..read more
America Magazine » Racism
3M ago
Was Teilhard de Chardin a promoter of eugenics? Two scholars debate the question ..read more
America Magazine » Racism
5M ago
James Baldwin's novels and essays loomed large in the 1950s and 1960s, but they have fallen out of favor with teachers in many literature courses. Is it time for a revival of his works ..read more
America Magazine » Racism
5M ago
Thoughtfully administered affirmative action, as endorsed by the U.S. bishops decades ago, is an incontrovertible part of our shared task to fight racism and promote equal opportunity ..read more
America Magazine » Racism
6M ago
A response by a historian to America's recent coverage of the path to completion by the Sisters of Charity of New York notes shock and disappointment at the lack of reckoning with the impact of the longstanding anti-Black and anti-brown admissions policies and practices that most European and white American congregations employed ..read more
America Magazine » Racism
7M ago
The rest of Tucker Carlson’s racist text betrayed a self-confessional Tucker Carlson I can begin to identify with ..read more
America Magazine » Racism
9M ago
A Catholic high school in Philadelphia is taking action after several of its students posted a racist social media video that has sparked community protests ..read more
America Magazine » Racism
9M ago
The history of the church was nothing close to a steady, if interrupted, march to eliminate slavery ..read more