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Brothers and Sisters to Us U.S. Catholic Bishops 1979 Pastoral Letter on Racism Black Catholics in the United States Fr. Augustus Tolton - 1st Black American Priest. Healy Brothers Succeed in White World. Blacks in Colonial Times. Work Among Blacks Increases. The Church and Slavery. First Black Saint was Slave Black Catholic Information Mall A project of the Catholic African World Network to establish a constant flow of communications among the 200 million Catholics of African descent in the world today. The BCIMall Home Page is a 'Virtual Global Parish Bulletin' for Black Catholic populations throughout the world Project Reach Out Racism continues to be the major barrier to authentic evangelization that is open to and affirming of the Black experience. Project Reach Out focuses on sharing the Good News of Jesus Christ with the churched and unchurched people of the Black Community James Healy The first African-American bishop in the United States Patrick Healy The first African-American president of a predominantly white university The View from the Barbershop:The Church and African-American Culture Article by Bishop Edward K. Braxton of Lake Charles, LA, first appeared in America in 1998 Sankofa 500: Anniversary of the First Enslaved African to Enter the Western Hemisphere Inspired by the universal wisdom expressed in the Akan West African philosophy of the Sankofa Bird, which looks back and returns to the source, the National Black Catholic Clergy Caucus revisits the past in order to move forward, looking back on the 500 years since the arrival of the first enslaved Africans in the western hemisphere. Their theological reflection on this history treats themes of Redemption, Repentance, Reconciliation, and Restoration. February 2001 issue of Blueprint for Social Justice, Loyola University, New Orleans Holy Angels Church An African American Catholic Community in Chicago. Site includes pages on Black Catholics, Black Christianity, Black Popes, African Saints, The African-American Diaspora, African-American Bishops, African and African-American Churches On-Line, The Catholic Church in Africa, 2000 Years of Christianity in AFRICA, African Cardinals Black and Catholic: Many Say They Are Faithful Despite Church's Inattention Article in National Catholic Reporter by Robert McClory, 1998 Are American Negro Churches Christian? Article in Theology Today by Joseph R. Washington, Jr, 1963 The Black Experience and Black Religion Article in Theology Today by Preston N. Williams, 1969 Black Experience and the Bible Article in Theology Today by Robert A. Bennett, 1971 Theology Today, Volume 38, July 1981 Contains these articles: "The Religion of Antiblackness" by Joseph R. Washington, Jr., "The Churches and the Future of Racism" by Donald W. Shriver, Jr.; "Countee Cullen's 'The Black Christ'" by James H. Smylie, "Religious Freedom and Native Americans" by John Dart; "Banning Black Theology in South Africa" by Allan A. Boesak The Idol of White Supremacy Article in Sojourners magazine by Eugene F. Rivers III As long as you think you're white, there's no hope for you Article in Sojourners magazine by Bob Hulteen Original Dishonor: Noah’s Curse and the Southern Defense of Slavery Article in The Journal of Southern Religion by Stephen R. Haynes, Rhodes College The African Methodist Episcopal Church Media and Racial Discourse, 1880-1900 Article in The North Star by Lawrence S. Little, Villanova University Black Theodicy: African Americans and Nationalism in the Antebellum North Article in The North Star by Patrick Rael, Bowdoin College Representin' God: Rap, Religion and the Politics of a Culture Article in The North Star by Charise Cheney, California Polytechnic State University, San Luis Obispo Negro Spirituals Atlantic Monthly, Volume 19, June 1867: 685-94 The Souls of Black Folk 1903 book by W.E.B. Du Bois The Soul of Du Bois' Black Folk Article in The North Star by Anthony B. Pinn, Professor of Religious Studies at Macalester College DuBois' Souls: Thoughts on "Veiled" Bodies and the Study of Black Religion Article in The North Star by Yolanda Pierce, Assistant Professor of English and African American Studies at the University of Kentucky A Sociological Examination of W. E. B. Du Bois' The Souls of Black Folk Article in The North Star by Sandra L. Barnes, Assistant Professor in the Department of Sociology & Anthropology and the African American Studies Research Center at Purdue University Understanding Discrimination against African Americans From the faculty of North Carolina Wesleyan College African American History Archives A whole library of documents, articles, speeches, and historical material Black Experience in America 1972 book by Norman Coombs The Black History Database You can look at some interesting facts for this particular week in Black History. You can search for topics in the database. You can search the calendar for facts about a particular month or year African American Texts Great collection of texts from the Electronic Text Center at the University of Virginia Library North American Slave Narratives Collects books and articles that document the individual and collective story of African Americans struggling for freedom and human rights in the eighteenth, nineteenth, and early twentieth centuries. This collection includes all the existing autobiographical narratives of fugitive and former slaves published as broadsides, pamphlets, or books in English up to 1920. Also included are many of the biographies of fugitive and former slaves and some significant fictionalized slave narratives published in English before 1920 Excerpts from Slave Narratives First-hand accounts of Enslavement, The Middle Passage, Arrival, Conditions of Life, Childhood, Family, Religion, Punishment, Resistance, Flight, Emancipation Slave Narratives Organized by Jon K. Møller. Includes "The Black Experience in America" by Norman Coombs; Excerpts from Slave Narratives (Edited by Steven Mintz - University of Huston); Slave Narratives - Miscelleaneous Been Here So Long Selections from the WPA American Slaves Narratives Perceptions of Slavery National Underground Railroad Freedom Center The National Underground Railroad Freedom Center on the banks of the Ohio River in downtown Cincinnati, Ohio, opened August 23, 2004. Using the Underground Railroad as a lens through which to explore a range of freedom issues, the Freedom Center offers lessons and reflections on the struggle for freedom in the past, in the present, and for the future Martyrs for Humanity Holy Angels Church, an African-American Catholic Church, promulgates a Declaration of Belief Proclamation, Martyrs for Humanity, for those individuals whose tireless work and effort throughout history has been for the benefit of humanity and in particular for the benefit of people of African, African-American, Afro-Caribbean, and Central and South American African heritage, generally at the cost of their lives. While not a canonization rite accompanied by the traditional Roman Catholic veneration and invocation, it is our sincere Declaration of Belief Proclamation that these individuals lives work was God's work and that they died in God's Divine Grace. Their souls are in Heaven with God The Menare Foundation's North Star Website The Menare Foundation is a national non-profit organization dedicated to the documentation, preservation, and restoration of Underground Railroad safe-houses. Within this site you can track Anthony Cohen's progress on the Walk to Canada, read about the work of the Menare Foundation, learn about the history of the Underground Railroad, discover safe-houses in your area, and find out how you can play a role in preserving your history and the movement to understand the Underground Railroad. Race, Ethnicity and Politics Resources in African American Politics, Public Affairs, History, and Culture Brown v. Board of Education of Topeka: 40 Years Later Samuel Harvey, Jr., Dr. Floretta Dukes McKenzie, and Roger Wilkins, Woodstock Report, June 1993 Jim Crow Museum of Racist Memorabilia The actual museum is located on the campus of Ferris State University in Big Rapids, Michigan. We recognize that some people are unable to visit the Jim Crow Museum; therefore, we have created this brief virtual tour of the museum National Civil Rights Museum Take a virtual tour of the museum in Memphis. Tn Martin Luther King Papers Project at Stanford University The King Papers Project's principal mission is to publish a definitive fourteen-volume edition of King's most significant correspondence, sermons, speeches, published writings, and unpublished manuscripts. The published volumes of The Papers of Martin Luther King, Jr., have already influenced scholarship and become essential reference works. Building upon this research foundation, the Project also engages in other related educational activities. Using multimedia and computer technology to reach diverse audiences, it has greatly increased the documentary information about King's ideas and achievements that is available to popular as well as scholarly audiences Martin Luther King: I Have a Dream Martin Luther King: Letter from a Birmingham Jail The Forgotten Teachings of Martin Luther King A collection of MLK passages on affirmative action Why the New Intellectuals Don't Cut It By Bill Benzon. Contents: Caveat Emptor -- "Don't let a fox stand guard over the chickens"; Music and The New Intellectuals; Racial Psychodynamics; American Cultural Dynamics: Why do White People Like Black Music?; Teach Me Tonight: We Need Responsible Voices On Slavery A paper by Femi Akomolafe Malcolm X Grassroots Movement Racial Disparities in Sentencing Decisions Abstract of a government publication The Black Peoples' Prison Survival Guide African culture, African intellectuals and the white academy in South Africa 1996 article by Tinyiko Sam Maluleke in the South African journal "Religion & Theology." The article deals with South Africa, but it has relevance to the American scene From Selma, Alabama to Hollywood, California A Thirty-One Year Struggle for Fairness and Inclusion in the American Dream. An open letter to the entertainment community by the Rev. Jesse L. Jackson Blacks and other Racial Minorities: The Significance of Color in Inequality 1988 article by Joe T. Darden Is It Really Racism? The Origins of White Americans' Opposition to Race-Targeted Policies By David O. Sears, Colette van Laar, Mary Carillo, and Rick Kosterman "NIGGER" A Case Study in Using a Racial Epithet By Keith Woods, Poynter Online, November 1995 An Essay on a Wickedly Powerful Word By Keith Woods, Poynter Online, November 1995 Nigger and Caricatures By Dr. David Pilgrim, Professor of Sociology, and Dr. Phillip Middleton, Professor of Languages and Literature, Ferris State University African Americans in the Sciences Two to three page biographies along with analysis of data The White Rage Article by Michael Kazin in The American Prospect White Supremacy in the 1990s Article by Loretta Ross Race and Identity in America A Personal Perspective by Glenn C. Loury Ontario Network for Human Rights Site contains several articles on racism Maya Angelou: The Black Family Pledge African American Holocaust Graphic pictures of lynchings Negro Suffrage in a Democracy By Ray Stannard Baker, Atlantic Monthly 106 (1910) My Bondage and My Freedom Frederick Douglass My Escape from Slavery Frederick Douglass Strivings of the Negro People W. E. Burghardt Du Bois African American Literature for Children Molly Maffei, a teacher at Crim School in Bridgewater, New Jersey, has put together this annotated bibliography as an aid to elementary school teachers African American Resources Afro-American History African American History Primary documents by and about African Americans |
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