A Roundtable Discussion of Henry Louis Gates, Jr.’s “The Black Church”

Henry Louis Gates, Jr.’s PBS documentary, The Black Church: This Is Our Story, This Is Our Song, plus its accompanying Penguin Press book, reached an unprecedentedly large audience as it surveyed three-plus centuries of African American and American religious history across the whole of the nation. In this roundtable discussion, five distinguished scholars reflect on … Read more

African-American Catholics of the United States

African American Catholics of the United States contains over 200 images of African American clergy, religious, and laity, plus others in ministry to them, in parishes and schools, religious communities, and lay organizations since 1900. Archives staff selected the images from the records of the Black and Indian Mission Collection, the Catholic Negro-American Mission Board, and … Read more