Dr. William Tate IV tapped as next president of Rutgers University
Since 2021, the Catholic-raised academic has served as the first Black president of Louisiana State University.
Sr Marcia Hall elected superior general of the Oblate Sisters of Providence, nation's oldest Black Catholic order
The New Jersey native and former university administrator has been a member of the Oblates, the nation's oldest Black Catholic order, since 1998.
Saint Frances Academy, nation's oldest Black Catholic school, to open middle school in fall 2025
The historic Baltimore institution, founded by the Oblate Sisters of Providence in 1828, announced the news earlier this month.
Jubilee pilgrimage to honor Venerable Augustus Tolton in August
The annual event will be led by retired Auxiliary Bishop Joseph Perry, who has led the Tolton cause for 15 years in the Archdiocese of Chicago.
Podcast: Chris Ellis on answering the call to the permanent diaconate (BCM show #15)
The Black Catholic D.C. native sat down with BCM to discuss culture, calling, and the need for greater commitment to evangelization.
Charlene Roberts-Hayden, pioneering computer scientist and Black Catholic official, dead at 86
The Massachusetts native helped popularize a formerly top-secret coding language and later led the Black Catholic office in the Archdiocese of Boston.
New Trappist meditation garden honors the enslaved in South Carolina
Mepkin Abbey in Moncks Corner planned the new project after discovering unmarked graves believed to belong to enslaved African Americans.
Parolin and Prevost: A tale of two papabile
Nate Tinner-Williams on the unforeseen ascension of an American pope and the swift reduction of an old Italian guard.
'Providential': Black Catholics react to Pope Leo XIV, the Creole
The former Robert Prevost is now known to be of African ancestry, part of a growing picture Americans are forming of the new supreme pontiff.
White smoke, Black pope? Pope Leo XIV, first American pontiff, has African roots
Previously unknown genealogy on the 69-year-old Chicago native was revealed by genealogists shortly after white smoke rose in St. Peter's Square.
Fr Jeff Harvey, acclaimed Vincentian professor and preacher, dead at 61
The Los Angeles native spent more than three decades as a parish priest and seminary professor in the United States and Oceania.
Amid conclave, Black Catholic theologians remember Pope Francis, look to future
Drs. Kathleen Dorsey Bellow and Andrew Prevot give perspective as cardinals select a new pope to lead the worldwide Catholic Church.
Alexis Herman, from Jim Crow to first Black labor secretary, dead at 77
The White House pioneer from Alabama made inroads for inclusion in the national workforce and served as a high-ranking Democratic Party official.
Cardinal Wilton Gregory says Mass at Rome titular church ahead of 2025 papal conclave
The Black Catholic prelate gathered with his Italian faithful amid scheduled Masses with cardinals in town to elect a successor to Pope Francis.
Review: 'Black Bag' wows with spy thriller themes on bedrock of virtue messaging
Nate Tinner-Williams reviews Steven Soderbergh's latest, which promotes marriage and fidelity while not skimping on complexity or cinema.
Haitian immigrant dies in ICE custody
Marie Ange Blaise, 44, suffered chest pain before her death at a privately owned facility in Florida, her third stop in custody since February.