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August 23, 2023 at 5:28 am

Native American group to digitize 20,000 archival pages linked to Quaker-run Indian boarding schools VIEW

The National Native American Boarding School Healing Coalition says it will digitize 20,000 archival pages related to Quaker-operated Indian boarding schools.

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August 2, 2023 at 12:42 pm

Adidas is donating Yeezy sales to anti-hate groups. US Jews say it’s making best of bad situation

Last October, sportswear giant Adidas cut ties with Ye, the rapper formerly known as Kanye West, due to his antisemitic comments.

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June 23, 2023 at 12:27 pm

Black nun who founded first African American religious congregation advances closer to sainthood

The Black Catholic nun who founded the United States’ first African American religious congregation has advanced another step toward sainthood.

June 11, 2023 at 5:19 am

Meet the LGBTQ activist who challenged his Caribbean country’s anti-sodomy law and won VIEW

Orden David took the government of his island nation of Antigua and Barbuda to court to end his country’s anti-sodomy law.

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June 11, 2023 at 5:10 am

At a glance: Laws in the Caribbean region that criminalize gay sex

Several Caribbean nations have struck down laws criminalizing same-sex relations in recent years.

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June 2, 2023 at 5:20 am

Rastafari gain sacramental rights to marijuana in Antigua and Barbuda, celebrate freedom of worship VIEW

For decades, members of the Rastafari community have been persecuted and imprisoned for their ritualistic marijuana use.

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June 2, 2023 at 5:07 am

Rastafari gain sacramental rights to marijuana in Antigua and Barbuda, celebrate freedom of worship VIEW

For decades, members of the Rastafari community have been persecuted and imprisoned for their ritualistic marijuana use.

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Sisters Donna Dodge, left, Margaret Egan, center, and Margaret M. O’Brien, right, members of the leadership council of the Sisters of Charity, walk into the Chapel of the Immaculate Conception where they took their vows at various times, after an interview at the College of Mount Saint Vincent, a private Catholic college in the Bronx borough of New York, on Tuesday, May 2, 2023. In more than 200 years of service, the Sisters of Charity of New York have cared for orphans, taught children, nursed the Civil War wounded and joined Civil Rights demonstrations. Last week, the Catholic nuns decided that it will no longer accept new members in the United States and will accept the “path of completion.” (AP Photo/John Minchillo) NYJM505 NYJM505

May 9, 2023 at 5:02 am

The end of an era for the Sisters of Charity of New York VIEW

A religiouis order in the Bronx that started in 1817 will wind down its work and its existence. It hasn't had a new sister join...

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May 1, 2023 at 4:01 am

Black Protestant church still vital despite attendance drop VIEW

The wide empty spaces in pews between parishioners at a Sunday service at Zion Baptist Church in South Carolina’s capital highlight a post-pandemic reality common...

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May 1, 2023 at 3:57 am

Black Protestant church still vital despite attendance drop VIEW

The wide empty spaces in pews between parishioners at a Sunday service at Zion Baptist Church in South Carolina’s capital highlight a post-pandemic reality common...

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