Catholicism’s origins in New York, Pennsylvania and New Jersey were shaped by migration, missionary efforts and political ...
Historian Shannen Dee Williams' comprehensive and compelling history of America's Black nuns, “Subversive Habits,” will be published May 17. Sister Delphine Okoro, a nun with the Oblate Sisters of ...
Even as a young adult, Shannen Dee Williams – who grew up Black and Catholic in Memphis, Tennessee – knew of only one Black nun, and a fake one at that: Sister Mary Clarence, as played by Whoopi ...