‘Tuskegee Effect’ a Root Cause in Suspicion of COVID-19 Vaccine Among Black Americans
February 9, 2021By Jessica Easthope It’s a shameful and lasting legacy decades in the making: the Tuskegee Syphilis Experiment, one of the most prominent […]
Topic: Racial Violence
Catholics Look to the Legacy of Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. in the Wake of Racial Unrest
January 18, 2021By Jessica Easthope The powerful words of “Lift Every Voice and Sing” reverberated through the rafters of Our Lady of Victory Church […]
Brooklyn Priest on Road to Sainthood Was a ‘Champion of Rights’
October 27, 2019By Tim Harfmann Monsignor Bernard Quinn was a champion for Black Catholics and faced down the KKK during the early twentieth century. […]
Thousands Gather to Reflect on History, Strife of Slavery in America
August 26, 2019Currents News Staff Four hundred years ago this month, the first documented Africans were brought to British North America. The arrival of […]
Brooklyn Clergy Form Anti-Racism Commission, Honor Priest On Road To Sainthood
June 20, 2019By Tamara Laine The hate-filled rhetoric and violent clashes that led to a senseless death in Charlottesville, Virginia almost two years ago […]
‘Powerful Pilgrimage’ Focused on Civil Rights Movement
August 15, 2018A Brooklyn priest is recalling a powerful journey he just completed. Father John Gribowich took a road trip as the nation remembers […]
Brooklyn Priest Racially Attacked
January 23, 2017Tim Harfmann reports from Marine Park, Brooklyn, where a priest was allegedly threatened with a baseball bat. The Nigerian-born priest, known to […]
People Take a “Stand” Against Anthem
September 6, 2016After Colin Kaepernick refused to stand during the national anthem, other athletes have been following suit- sitting and even kneeling in protest […]