This summer Loyola University Maryland will host “Voices on Equity: A Lunchtime Series with Loyola,” a series of webinars discussing topics around race, anti-racism, and living out a deeper commitment to Baltimore. “Our Catholic, Jesuit tradition calls us to be contemplatives in action,” said Cheryl Moore-Thomas, Ph.D., chief equity and inclusion officer. “The Voices on […]
The Jesuit Antiracism Sodality (JARS) will be hosting a webinar on Saturday September 12th at 11AM Eastern entitled Jesuit Education: Talking About Race in the Classroom. The session will be facilitated by Br. Ken Homan, S.J. (UMI) and Mr. Justin White, a theology teacher at Loyola Blakefield. The facilitators ask that those planning to attend try […]
Theme: What is the first-hand experience of patients and providers who are Black Indigenous People of Color (BIPOC)? What specific steps could medical schools, hospital systems, and individual health care providers take? Panelists: Dr. David Ansell, MD, MPH (Senior Vice President for Community Health Equity, Rush University Medical Center -Bio), Dr. Lena Hatchett, PhD (Associate […]
September 30 | 1:00-2:00 pm PST | Register now » In response to the Black Lives Matter movement, Catholic communities are grappling with their own historical and current complicity in tolerating racist systems and perpetuating white privilege and power structures. This panel will explore the theological and pastoral responses available to Catholics in addressing and responding to […]
The Canisius College Contemporary Writers Series announces a free, public live reading and conversation with Damon Young, author of What Doesn't Kill You Makes You Blacker.
RSVP link As the end of his administration approaches, President Trump has restarted the use of the federal death penalty. Since July there have been 10 executions with another three before he leaves office. These federal executions are the first in 17 years and raise critical moral, human, and policy choices for the nation and […]
Registration link New York Times bestselling and National Book Award-winning author Ibram X. Kendi will speak at Loyola University Maryland's annual Martin Luther King, Jr., Convocation on Wednesday, Jan. 20, 2021, at 7 p.m. The convocation, “Uprooting Racism and Inequality: Antiracist Educator and Scholar Ibram Kendi in conversation with Karsonya Wise Whitehead,” will be livestreamed. […]
Join this panel and conversation on understanding the Catholic commitment to solidarity, and exploring how we navigate the complications and tensions of participating in social justice movements while maintaining fidelity to our Catholic identities and teaching.
RSVP to [email protected]; access details will be available closer to the event. Nonviolence is a spiritual journey, a way of life, a method for social change, and a universal ethic. Pope Francis has increasingly called on the Church and the world to embrace Gospel nonviolence in our lives and in the struggle for a more just, […]
Featured Webinar Speaker: Isaiah “Ike” McKinnon, Ph.D., Jesuit educated, former deputy mayor and chief of police of the City of Detroit, retired associate professor of education at the University of Detroit Mercy, author, and graduate of the FBI National Academy and the United States Secret Service School. In the wake of the police killing of […]
Click Here to Register Mary J. Wardell-Ghirarduzzi, PhD, vice provost & chief diversity officer at the University of San Francisco (USF) will present a webinar titled, A Call to Conversion: Eliminating anti-Blackness as a Jesuit Catholic University on Wednesday, March 10, 2021 from 4 – 5:30 p.m. The purpose of Wardell-Ghirarduzzi’s talk is to help Ignatian educators […]
Click Here to Register Presented by the Canisius Academy and co-sponsored by the Center for Catholic Studies, Olga M. Segura will virtually deliver the fourth annual Canisius Academy Lecture, based on her just-published book Birth of a Movement: Black Lives Matter and the Catholic Church. In April of 2019, upon signing her first publishing contract with […]
