What Black Lives Matter Can Mean for Catholics

June 24, 2021

Presented by Olga Segura, NCR’s Opinion and Culture Editor 
Olga Segura, joined us to discuss her book, Birth of a Movement: Black Lives Matter and the Catholic Church (Orbis, 2021). Olga identified common values held by both the BLM movement and the Catholic Church. By embracing this reality, Catholics can learn how to build a Church characterized by racial equality, a Church in which truly, all are welcome.

Session recording

Resources:

  • Olga’s book Birth of a Movement: Black Lives Matter and the Catholic Church was published by Orbis (February 2021) and is available there and on Amazon. You can read an excerpt of the book at NCRonline.org.
  • Olga’s articles published on NCRonline.org.
  • In a session from Olga’s monthly NCR Culture livestream, Olga interviews Ike Ndolo, a young, immigrant Black Catholic with musician and podcast host.
  • The poem Opening prayer Olga used in the session was the poem “Therapy" and it's from Nayyirah Waheed's collection salt.
Reading:
  • Read NCR’s recently published four-part series about prison abolition and restorative justice.  
  • David Paul, the director of the Collaborative Center for Justice, has written two pieces about policing and prisons for NCR. 
  • Learn about Clarissa Brooks.  
  • From an NCR Forward member Emily: “There's a wonderful book called Redeeming Capitalism, by Kenneth J. Barnes, which both critiques capitalism and offers a vision of how to redeem it, using a Christian theological lens.”

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