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Coalition kicks off campaign to engage Black voters ahead of midterms
By Nikole Killion | CBS News
Washington — More than 50 organizations are joining forces to mobilize African American voters for November’s midterm elections, with the coalition announcing the launch of a multi-state voter engagement and organizing effort on Monday.
Bishop Kevin C. Rhoades welcomed participants of the Joint Conference of Black Catholic Clergy and Religious
From the Diocese of Fort Wayne-South Bend
Life of Black journalist Daniel Rudd challenges church to racial equality
by Michael Sean Winters | National Catholic Reporter
Earlier this year, a former plantation in Bardstown, Kentucky, named Anatok, was demolished. It was the birthplace of Daniel Rudd, who had been born into slavery at the plantation, and who went on to start the nation’s first Black Catholic newspaper, the American Catholic Tribune. A report about the demolition in the Black Catholic Messenger by Nate Tinner-Williams noted the effort to raise funds to restore the property had fallen short, and that a protracted legal battle over the historic building had begun in 2012, “shortly after the release of the first Rudd biography.”