When we narrate the history of the church from the perspective of Black nuns,” says historian Shannen Dee Williams, “myths ...

Cardinal Wilton D. Gregory, apostolic administrator of The Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Washington and the first and only African American Cardinal, observed Black History Month by serving as guest ...

Black history runs through Kathe Hambricks' veins. As a young child growing up, her uncle pastored a large South Central Los ...

Mwatabu Okantah was at Kent State when Black History Month was first celebrated. He reflects on the groundwork laid and why ...

Building on his earlier classic work, Evangelicals and Politics in Antebellum America, Carwardine observes that the Whigs, ...

After three years in Memphis, I went to Trinity Evangelical Divinity School north of Chicago. I soon noticed there were fewer than ten Black students from the United States. I was very excited to be ...

As we watch politics play out, keep in mind the value of HBCUs, the institutions of higher learning with the mission of ...

It is important to embrace the culture and free expression that define us as Chicagoans and Americans. In other words, buy a ticket and see a show. Here are five to consider.

Russian media constantly broadcasts about the “fake” nature of Ukrainian identity, using language reminiscent of past ...

As a teen raised in the Rust Belt in the 1960s, Alan Cashaw wasn’t blind to the fact that racism existed. But he also knew freedom in. “There was never a question over whether I could vote when I ...

The first and only American Black Cardinal observed Black History Month by serving as guest homilist for the Archdiocese of ...

THIS column continues from last week. Isaac Jacob Rochussen, the patrician from the Netherlands who brought Nicholas Said to New York in January 1860, exposed him to his first baptism of American ...