Word: blacking
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...June 4, the darkest day of the republic, China went sick." He said he saw "many comrades and compatriots" killed and beaten by "bestial, fascist troops" or "crushed to death and flattened out by tanks." In a separate statement, he likened the present rule in Beijing to "a black sun" that rose "on the day in June that should have belonged to a season of fresh flowers." He predicted that it would not last long: "Black sun, I'm going to shoot you down...
...Washington Catholics, Stallings is a figure to reckon with. During a twelve-year assignment, the 41-year-old priest built up a black parish from 200 to 2,000 families. Last year Hickey appointed him director of the archdiocese's evangelism program. Heedless of Hickey's stern warnings, Stallings is determined to celebrate Mass for his Imani (Swahili for faith) Temple, which will meet temporarily in a chapel at Howard University. How many of the archdiocese's 80,000 black parishioners will enlist in this self-made Catholicism? Jacqueline Wilson, who directs the Washington archdiocesan office for black Catholics, thinks...
Since well before the Civil War, black Americans have been predominantly Protestant. Despite extensive outreach by the Roman Catholic Church, only 2 million of America's 54 million lay Catholics and 300 of the nation's 19,000 priests are black. Thirteen of 314 active Catholic bishops in the U.S. are black. The first black archbishop, Eugene Marino, was assigned to Atlanta only last year. Catholicism has not only had difficulty finding new recruits in the black community, it is even beginning to lose its grip on those few already in the fold...
Nowhere are the problems more evident than in Detroit and Washington, two archdioceses where the church is confronting sharp dissatisfaction among blacks. In Washington, a fiery, articulate black priest named George A. Stallings Jr., fed up with the church's treatment of blacks, plans to defy James Cardinal Hickey this week by inaugurating his own independent African- American Catholic Congregation. In Detroit, black resentment is aimed at Edmund Cardinal Szoka, who last week finally shut down 21 of the city's 114 parishes, mostly in black neighborhoods, with nine others soon to follow. The action came despite angry protests...
During the '50s and '60s, bigots knew they could lynch a Black man because the Southern legal system was completely sympathetic to white supremacist claims. Today, the anti-choice activists know that the law is on their side. What limits will they set for themselves...