Black Holocaust Museum Reopens and Welcomes Visitors for the First Time Since 2008
February 28, 2022Currents News Staff It’s a celebration of 14 years in the making: America’s Black Holocaust Museum in Milwaukee has finally reopened their […]
Topic: Black History
Cardinal Wilton Gregory Celebrates Black History Month Mass of Thanksgiving in Diocese of Brooklyn
February 22, 2022By Jessica Easthope and Paula Katinas America’s first black Cardinal came last weekend to the Diocese of Brooklyn — which boasts the largest […]
Black Catholic History Month Mass Honors a Group of Historic Sororities and Fraternities
November 23, 2021Currents News Staff and Paula Katinas BEDFORD-STUYVESANT — Marcel J. Desroches says his admiration for the Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King includes […]
Black Catholic History Month on Display at Diocese Academy
November 15, 2021By Jessica Easthope We were all made in God’s image and likeness – but the reality is that these students have to […]
‘Unspoken Voices’ Exhibit Using Art to Humanize Those Enslaved at NYC’s Dyckman Farmhouse
March 17, 2021By Emily Drooby Six names are no longer hidden from the world. Now, they’re part of an exhibit at the Dyckman Farmhouse […]
Black History Month Mass in the Brooklyn Diocese: Celebration, a Call for Unity
March 1, 2021The following is the full text from homilist Father Franklin Ezeorah, for the Feb. 28, 2021 Black History Month Mass: “I like […]
A Stop on the Underground Railroad: Take a Look Inside Brooklyn’s Plymouth Church
February 24, 2021By Emily Drooby On a quaint Brooklyn Heights street sits Plymouth Church. Hidden among the pews, are crucial pieces of Black History. […]
History of Seneca Village Rediscovered Through Education in Central Park
February 23, 2021By Jessica Easthope Forty million people visit Central Park every year, but how many of them know about its past? Buried beneath the […]
Black History Month Sees Trials, Triumphs After a Historic Year
February 8, 2021By Jessica Easthope The global pandemic COVID-19 has killed the father and grandfather of Detroit’s Keith Gambrell. “It’s very frustrating, it’s heartbreaking. […]
Representative John Lewis Remembered By Friends and Former Presidents in Farewell Church Service
July 30, 2020Currents News Staff Representative John Lewis, a passionate champion of civil rights and long-term Georgia congressman, was remembered July 30 by family, […]