WASHINGTON (OSV News) — The Church in the United States and the Church in Africa “are two lungs of the same Body, breathing the same Spirit,” a Nigerian bishop told Massgoers in Washington, emphasizing how the Church in both countries are united in Christ.
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Canonization Cause of Catholic University Alumna Sr. Thea Bowman Moves Forward
Servant of God Sr. Thea Bowman, F.S.P.A., M.A. 1969, Ph.D. 1972, is a step closer to being recognized as a saint.
The Diocese of Jackson – where she was born, became Catholic, and later served as an intercultural consultant – has completed the initial phase of her canonization process. This included researching and documenting her life and virtue.
When Dred Scott offered his owner $300 to free him from slavery, she turned him down. Scott filed a lawsuit that would shatter the nation.
By Jane O’Shea for Newsbreak
The Slave Who Changed History
Born into slavery and moved constantly across a chaotic nation, Dred Scott’s life drifted on the currents of shifting laws, military posts, and bitterly contested ideas about freedom. Long before his name arrived in the Supreme Court, Scott’s life showed how slavery operated across borders, territories, and jurisdictions. His story is best followed as a chain of relocations, ownership changes, and legal decisions.
Image: Schultze, Louis, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons
26 Black Inventions That Quietly Run the World
By Kya Kelly for Newsbreak
For centuries, Black innovation has powered daily life in ways that rarely receive the credit they deserve. Not because the work wasn’t groundbreaking, but because history has a habit of separating brilliance from the people who produced it.
After a traumatic event, Harriet Tubman suffered from seizures. But during these spells, she claimed to receive visions and messages from God.
By Miles Brucker | Newsbreak
The American Emancipator
The people called her Moses. Like the Old Testament patriarch, she led an enslaved people out of bondage. The mysterious spells she suffered, replete with visions, brought a sense of spiritual urgency to her work, and only added to the belief that Tubman was on a mission from God. Tubman spent her whole life—nearly 100 years—working to improve the lives of society’s most marginalized people. She freed thousands, she said, “but could have freed a thousand more, if they only knew they were slaves.”