Black Catholic Messenger
{{Short description|African-American Catholic newspaper}}
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{{Infobox website
| name = Black Catholic Messenger
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| type = Online newspaper
| company_type = Nonprofit
| language = English
| foundation = {{Start date|2020|10}}
| country_of_origin = United States
| founder = Nate Tinner-Williams, Preslaysa Williams, Alessandra Harris
| editor = Nate Tinner-Williams
| parent = Black Catholic Messenger Foundation
| url = {{URL|https://blackcatholicmessenger.org/}}
| current_status = Active
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Black Catholic Messenger (BCM) is a nonprofit media publication covering stories of interest to African-American Catholics.{{Cite web |last=Bailey |first=Deborah |date=2022-02-19 |title=Black Catholic Messenger brings young, Black Catholic voices and perspectives |url=http://afro.com/black-catholic-messenger-brings-young-black-catholic-voices-and-perspectives/ |access-date=2022-06-19 |website=AFRO American Newspapers |language=en-US}}{{Cite web |date=2020-11-01 |title=History & Vision |url=https://www.blackcatholicmessenger.com/about/ |access-date=2021-09-01 |website=Black Catholic Messenger |language=en}}{{Cite web |title=Conversion begins with healing - Our Sunday Visitor |url=https://www.osvnews.com/2021/03/05/conversion-begins-with-healing/?print=print |access-date=2022-06-19 |website=Our Sunday Visitor| date=March 5, 2021 }}{{Cite web |title=Mapping Black Media |url=https://www.journalism.cuny.edu/2020/11/mapping-black-media/ |access-date=2022-06-19 |website=City University of New York|date=November 30, 2020 }}
Its coverage has been featured in The Philadelphia Inquirer, La Croix, Aleteia, and the Baltimore Afro-American.{{Cite web |last=Days |first=Michael |date=2021-02-25 |title=Black Catholics deserved recognition in PBS doc on Black churches |url=https://www.inquirer.com/opinion/commentary/black-churches-pbs-catholics-20210225.html |access-date=2021-09-01 |website=The Philadelphia Inquirer |language=en}}{{Cite web |last=Mauro |first=JP |date=2021-09-01 |title=Stage production on life of Venerable Augustus Tolton soon to be a movie |url=https://aleteia.org/2021/09/01/stage-production-on-life-of-venerable-augustus-tolton-soon-to-be-a-movie/ |access-date=2021-09-01 |website=Aleteia |language=en}} BCM established a republishing partnership with National Catholic Reporter in 2022.{{Cite web |title=Black Catholic Messenger, NCR announce partnership |url=https://www.ncronline.org/news/black-catholic-messenger-ncr-announce-partnership |access-date=2023-07-04 |website=National Catholic Reporter |language=en}}
History
The publication was founded in New Orleans, Louisiana, in late 2020. Nate Tinner-Williams—inspired by the model of Daniel Rudd, the 19th- and 20th-century Black Catholic journalist from Ohio—formed a group of young African-American Catholics to create a publication that could possibly revive Rudd's journalistic legacy.
The group, consisting of Tinner-Williams and authors Alessandra Harris and Preslaysa Williams, began their work in October of that year.{{Cite web |last=Muller |first=Madison |date=2021-11-11 |title=Catholic Leaders Say Social Justice Isn't In Conflict With Faith |url=https://sojo.net/articles/catholic-leaders-say-social-justice-isnt-conflict-faith |access-date=2022-06-19 |website=Sojourners |language=EN}}{{Cite web |last=Rasmussen |first=Erika |date=2021-02-24 |title=Should the Catholic Church have an African-American rite? This Black Catholic convert thinks so. |url=https://www.americamagazine.org/faith/2021/02/24/black-catholic-messenger-african-american-rite-240073 |access-date=2022-06-19 |website=America Magazine |language=en}}{{Cite web |title=10 Black Catholic Women You Should Follow on Social Media • FemCatholic |url=https://www.femcatholic.com/post/10-black-catholic-women-you-should-follow-on-social-media |access-date=2022-06-19 |website=www.femcatholic.com |language=en}}{{Cite web |last= |date=2021-09-15 |title=The Vision and Mission of the Black Catholic Messenger: An Interview with Nate Tinner-Williams |url=https://millennialjournal.com/2021/09/14/the-vision-and-mission-of-the-black-catholic-messenger-an-interview-with-nate-tinner-williams/ |access-date=2022-07-03 |website=Millennial Journal |language=en}}
The publication reports on various issues in the Catholic Church and the Black community, some of which education, episcopal governance, racism, vocations, abuse, and notable deaths.{{Cite web |date=2022-03-22 |title=Michael Howard Named Inaugural Fellow in New Black Catholic Program at Loyola Marymount University |url=https://newsroom.lmu.edu/lmu-in-the-news/michael-howard-named-inaugural-fellow-in-new-black-catholic-program-at-loyola-marymount-university/ |access-date=2022-06-19 |website=LMU Newsroom |language=en-US}}{{Cite web |date=2021-11-16 |title=Black sisters group takes archbishop to task for comments on social justice |url=https://www.globalsistersreport.org/news/news/news/black-sisters-group-takes-archbishop-task-comments-social-justice |access-date=2022-06-19 |website=Global Sisters Report |language=en}}{{Cite web |date=2021-11-09 |title=Black Catholics in US dismayed after archbishop calls protests pseudo-religions |url=https://international.la-croix.com/news/religion/black-catholics-in-us-dismayed-after-archbishop-calls-protests-pseudo-religions/15184 |access-date=2022-06-19 |website=international.la-croix.com |language=en}} The Messenger also publishes interviews and art, including photography and poetry.{{Cite web |date=2022-04-29 |title=President Garibaldi featured in interview with Black Catholic Messenger |url=https://sites.udmercy.edu/campusconnection/2022/04/29/president-garibaldi-featured-in-interview-with-black-catholic-messenger/ |access-date=2022-06-19 |website=Detroit Mercy Campus Connection |language=en-US}}{{Cite web |date=2021-03-30 |title=Black Catholic poet shares experience in verse |url=https://todayscatholic.org/black-catholic-poet-shares-experience-in-verse/ |access-date=2022-06-19 |website=Today's Catholic |language=en-US}}
Editor
Nate Tinner-Williams serves as editor of the publication and in that capacity has been featured in America, National Catholic Reporter, and The Philadelphia Inquirer.{{Cite web |last=McCormick |first=Bill |date=2021-04-29 |title=Was Joe Biden preaching Catholic social teaching to the Congress last night? Supporters think so. |url=https://www.americamagazine.org/politics-society/2021/04/29/biden-speech-congress-catholic-reaction-240557 |access-date=2021-09-01 |website=America Magazine |language=en}}{{cite news |last=Fraga |first=Brian |date=2021-08-16 |title=As Southern states restrict voting rights, local bishops remain largely silent |url=https://www.ncronline.org/news/justice/southern-states-restrict-voting-rights-local-bishops-remain-largely-silent |url-status=live |access-date=2021-09-01 |work=National Catholic Reporter |language=en |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220506215334/https://www.ncronline.org/news/justice/southern-states-restrict-voting-rights-local-bishops-remain-largely-silent |archive-date=2022-05-06}}
See also
- {{annotated link|Black Catholicism}}
- List of Catholic newspapers and magazines in the United States
- {{annotated link|Daniel Rudd}}
References
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Category:African-American newspapers
Category:African-American Roman Catholicism
Category:Black-owned companies of the United States
Category:Catholic newspapers published in the United States
Category:Catholic organizations established in the 21st century