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From AP
WASHINGTON (AP) — The Senate has passed a bill to award the Congressional Gold Medal posthumously to Emmett Till, the Chicago teenager murdered by white supremacists in the 1950s, and his mother, Mamie Till-Mobley, who insisted on an open casket funeral to demonstrate the brutality of his killing.
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Volume 41 No. 1 January 2022
On January 6, 2021 the light of democracy was threatened.
In January of 2022 that light is still under attack.
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Former USCCB official and leading voice for Black Catholics dies at 75
By Mary K. Tilghman | Catholic News Service
BALTIMORE (CNS) — A funeral Mass was offered Nov. 23 at St. Peter Claver Church in West Baltimore for Beverly A. Carroll, a social justice advocate who spent her life raising her voice for African American Catholics in the Archdiocese of Baltimore, the United States and the world.
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From Loyola Marymount University: Announcing the CRS Program Development Fellowship
Development of a New Online Continuing Education Program Focused on the Concerns of Black Catholics
In order to launch new online programming focused on the concerns of African American Catholics in the fall of 2022, the Loyola Marymount University Center for Religion and Spirituality (CRS) announces a national competitive application process for a CRS Program Development Fellowship; the successful applicant will then develop a curriculum for two semester-long online continuing education courses that would make up a single program focused on the concerns of African American Catholics in terms of the problem of racism and their experience of faith.
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