Carlos Simon Releases ‘Requiem for the Enslaved’
Carlos Simon’s musical debut,“Requiem for the Enslaved,” highlights how slavery is inextricably linked to systematic racism in this country and the world.
Carlos Simon’s musical debut,“Requiem for the Enslaved,” highlights how slavery is inextricably linked to systematic racism in this country and the world.
Calls for a vote recount, first from defeated opposition candidate Martin Fayulu, are now being heard widely, sparking concerns that outgoing President Joseph Kabila played a behind the scenes role in swinging the election for Felix Tshisekedi, an opposition leader.
“He was upset that his children were going in different directions,” the Archbishop said in an interview with the BBC.
March is Women’s History Month Catholic Sisters subject of upcoming book by Dr. Shannen Williams The role of African American Catholic Sisters is rarely cited in books on Black History, but Dr. Shannen D. Williams is about to change that with her forthcoming book, “Subversive Habits –Black Nuns and the Long Struggle to Desegregate Catholic America After World War I.” Williams, an assistant professor at the University of Tennessee – Knoxville, is meticulously unearthing the long-buried background of scores of Black women in religious orders. During a recent presentation at Loyola Marymount University in Los Angeles, she revealed the discrimination,