From Lascelles Anderson BALTIMORE, MD., APRIL/MAY 2015 The events of the last several weeks in Baltimore must force us to take time out if we are going to have even the slightest understanding of what has been happening in neglected black and poor communities: to the physical surroundings that people who live there must face…
The Race Against Hate was founded in memory of Ricky Byrdsong, former Northwestern University Basketball Coach, Vice President of Affairs at Aon Corporation, and Skokie resident who was murdered by a white supremacist in 1999 while walking in his neighborhood with two of his young children. On the same day, the shooter also wounded nine Orthodox Jews…
Dear Friends, Once again we witness the horror of gun violence, this time in a church in South Carolina. We must continue to work for a society in which we will not have to confront such unspeakable tragedy. We must continue to work for a world in which the scourge of racism does not spill…
Dear Friends, Friday is a day of rejoicing for students in Chicago’s public schools. It is their last day of school before summer vacation. But the warm, inviting weather of late spring and early summer also bring fresh waves of violence to streets in Chicago and elsewhere across our diocese. Evidence is already beginning to…
