A Los Angeles pilot program will vaccinate hundreds within three kilometre radius of a Catholic church
Los Angeles, USRNS The goal: to vaccinate 600 eligible people who live within a three kilometre radius surrounding St Brigid Catholic Church, a Black and Latino parish hit hard by COVID-19 in South Los Angeles. This effort is part of a two-day pilot project in partnership with the County of Los Angeles and One LA, […]
Eternity and “a human face”: At Amanda Gorman’s Black Catholic LA parish, “it’s like everybody here is a freedom fighter”
ALEJANDRA MOLINA, of Religion News Service, reports on the Afrocentric Catholic church in South Central Los Angeles where Inguration Poet Amanda Gorman sang in the youth choir, did her sacraments and recited her poetry…
This Life: Amanda Gorman, my grandma and the Black tears we cried
US writer and student DANTÉ STEWART, in an article first published on Religion News Service, reflects on how his grandmother saw this week’s US presidential inauguration…