Resources for 250 Years Towards Racial Justice: Progress, Promise, and Challenges
June 15, 2026
These resources come from the Public Dialogue 250 Years Towards Racial Justice: Progress, Promise, and Challenges.
Articles
- America's two Independence Days (Catholic Standard)
- Auxiliary Bishop-elect Robert Boxie of Washington to be consecrated July 7 (Black Catholic Messenger)
- Bishop Perry on on voting rights and the Catholic Church’s call to justice (America)
- Dismantling Structural Racism to End Capital Punishment (Howard Law Journal)
- Juneteenth Family Day at Sacred Heart Parish in Bowie to honor lives of those enslaved by Jesuits and buried at that site (Catholic Standard)
- The Supreme Court and the Voting Right Act: Who rules when we give up on laws? (America)
Books and Book Chapters
- African American Political Thought: A Collected History (2021)
- "How Can We End Capital Punishment?," in Legal Change: Lessons from America's Social Movements (2015)
- "Race and the Death Penalty," in The Elgar Companion to Capital Punishment and Society (2024)
- The 272: The Families Who Were Enslaved and Sold to Build the American Catholic Church (2024)
- The Darkened Light of Faith: Race, Democracy, and Freedom in African American Political Thought (2023)
Pastoral Reflection
- Juneteenth: A Pastoral Reflection on Racial Justice (United States Conference of Catholic Bishops)
Podcasts and Conversations
- The Declaration of Independence and the Push for Racial Equality (National Constitution Center)
- What the Black Intellectual Tradition can Teach Us About American Democracy (National Constitution Center)