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A woman in Minneapolis looks at a memorial for George Floyd June 14. (CNS/Reuters/Eric
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An anti-racism reading list from NCR [[link removed]]
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by Brittany Wilmes and Stephanie Yeagle
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We are living in fraught times.
The novel coronavirus still ravages our cities, taking over 115,000 lives in the
U.S. alone [[link removed]].
But a tanking economy and frustrated consumers, employees and businesses have convinced
all 50 states to reopen [[link removed]]
in some fashion.
In the midst of this tension, on May 25, Memorial Day, George Floyd [[link removed]],
a Black man, was killed while in police custody. His death joins countless others,
so many Black Americans who have died by a police officer's hand.
"There is no accounting for these deaths," NCR wrote in a May 29 editorial, "or
the multitude of other African Americans whose deaths by police were unfilmed or
otherwise unrecorded by history."
Our duty as a news publication is to report the truth. Our duty as Catholics is
to join our brothers and sisters in crying out for justice and peace.
Below you will find NCR reporting and commentary on this singular moment, plus reporting
and commentary from our sister publications, Global Sisters Report and EarthBeat.
We hope these resources help our readers understand what is happening in our country
and our church. Take some time to sit with these stories as well as the powerful
commentaries from Catholic writers, both Black Catholics and allies.
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NCR news:

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Archbishop Wilton Gregory on racism: significant moment for real national transition
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Catholics join solidarity efforts in Minnesota [[link removed]]
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Kansas City unity march held to bridge divide between police, protesters [[link removed]]
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Pandemic hinders Catholic response to Minneapolis killing [[link removed]]
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Catholic activists protest Trump's visit to St. John Paul II Shrine [[link removed]]
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Demonstrators in Atlanta march for racial justice June 11. Over 400 Catholics filled
the street in front of the Shrine of the Immaculate Conception. (CNS/Georgia Bulletin/Michael
Alexander)

GSR news:

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Day of mourning marks lives lost to COVID-19 and recognizes inequality in US [[link removed]]
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Reaction: US sisters acknowledge systemic racism, join call for fundamental police
reform [[link removed]]
NCR editorials:

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What have you done? No accounting for deaths of Floyd, Taylor and Arbery [[link removed]]
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Defund the police - or at least de-escalate their excessive use of violence [[link removed]]
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NCR commentary:

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Fr. Bryan Massingale: The assumptions of white privilege and what we can do about
it [[link removed]]
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Anne Arabome: I can't breathe because God can't breathe [[link removed]]
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Michael Sean Winters: Will it be different this time? Will we face our racism? [[link removed]]
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Franciscan Fr. Dan Horan: When will the US bishops address the evil of systemic
racism head-on? [[link removed]]
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Jamie Manson: We all must say 'Black Lives Matter' [[link removed]]
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Fr. Joseph A. Brown: Black in America: I am tired [[link removed]]
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Jesuit Fr. Thomas Reese: My generation failed to deal with racism [[link removed]]
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The casket of George Floyd is placed in the chapel of the Fountain of Praise Church
in Houston June 9. (CNS/Pool via Reuters/David J. Phillip)


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Heidi Schlumpf: White people, let's do our homework [[link removed]]
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Benedictine Sr. Joan Chittister:
Racism is the temptation white people have yet to overcome [[link removed]]
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El Paso Bishop Mark Seitz: Black lives matter [[link removed]]
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Adele McKiernan: We liberal white Catholics must get serious about racial justice
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Teresa Marie Cariño: A Catholic cry for Black Lives Matter [[link removed]]
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Robert Alan Glover: We were born fitting the description [[link removed]]
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Arturo J. Bañuelas, M.T. Dávila, Miguel H. Díaz, Carmen Nanko-Fernández: We breathe
together [[link removed]]
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Alex Mikulich: We need to embody a blues hope [[link removed]]
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Shannen Dee Williams: The church must make reparation for its role in slavery, segregation
[[link removed]]
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Kenya Turner, a member of St. Martin de Porres Church in Louisville, Kentucky, is
pictured June 6 during the "Black Catholics Unite: Stand For Justice March." (CNS/courtesy
The Record)

GSR commentary:

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Franciscan Sr. Joan Brown: 'I can't breathe' - the words that haunt us [[link removed]]
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St. Joseph Sr. Susan Francois: Lament and love - becoming anti-racist [[link removed]]
EarthBeat news and commentary:

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Where can I learn more about environmental racism? [[link removed]]
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EarthBeat Weekly: Why racial and environmental justice are so linked [[link removed]]
Spiritual resources:

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Digging Into Laudato Si': Practical relativism and racial justice [[link removed]]
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Pencil Preaching: Holy breath [[link removed]]
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Pencil Preaching: What have we learned? [[link removed]]
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Francis, the comic strip: June 9, 2020 [[link removed]]
Book reviews:

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New memoir explores middle-class blackness in the post-civil rights era [[link removed]]
(June 3, 2015)
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A black man writes to his son; three-part letter pursues 'question of how one should
live within a black body' [[link removed]]
(Feb 17, 2016)
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Race and sovereignty, a story of the body [[link removed]]
(May 3, 2017)
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Old case, new look at systemic racism [[link removed]]
(Sept 6, 2017)
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Pauli Murray: Refusing restrictions of society and law [[link removed]]
(Oct 11, 2017)
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Cuéntame invites relationship in urgent times for US Catholics [[link removed]]
(Oct 3, 2018)
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While the mask remains, memoir serves as coda for James Cone's career [[link removed]]
(Dec 5, 2018)
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Mentors of an American Gandhi [[link removed]]
(Jan 19, 2019)
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The Native America of today [[link removed]]
(Apr 17, 2019)
* Lenny Duncan, Lutheran pastor, calls on Christianity to revolutionize [[link removed]]
(Nov 20, 2019)
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New book on Charleston massacre depicts agonizing struggle to move on [[link removed]]
(Jan 15, 2020)
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