Claudette Colvin: The spark before Rosa Parks February 9, 2021By Carole Norris Greene Catholic News Service Filed Under: Commentary, Guest Commentary, Racial Justice On March 2, 1955, Claudette was a 15-year-old frightened Black girl who refused to give up her seat to a white woman on a segregated bus in Montgomery, Alabama. She was jailed nine months before Rosa Parks was arrested for the same civil disobedience, but not in the same way.
Where do we go from here? Look inward August 28, 2020By Carole Norris Greene Special to the Catholic Review Filed Under: Amen, Commentary, Guest Commentary, Racial Justice The church is in a unique position to offer forums for frank discussions of race and where we go from here.
A letter to Archbishop William E. Lori on his pastoral on racism March 12, 2019By Carole Norris Greene Filed Under: Commentary, Guest Commentary If I had to point to one thing that stunted my motivation to evangelize, to go beyond highlighting cultural contributions of blacks to Catholicism to confidently asking others to become Catholic too, I’d have to admit it was racism.
