According to recent figures from the U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops, there are about 400 African American religious sisters, out of a total of roughly 40,000 nuns.

Subversive Habits presents straightforwardly the lives of Black Catholic women religious from the early 19th century through to the Black Lives Matter movement.

The fact that nun horror is most often set in earlier eras—­usually back when nuns were sporting habits and chanting in Latin—feels like a middle finger to these women, who had some measure ...

The sisters are instantly recognisable for their eye-catching rose-hued habits, a joyous symbol of their closeness to the Holy Spirit. Affectionately known as the ‘pink sisters’, the ...

Shannen D. Williams uncovers that history in her book, 'Subversive Habits: Black Catholic Nuns in the Long African American Freedom Struggle.' Celebrity 2024 Sexiest Men Of the Moment ...

Historian Shannen Dee Williams' comprehensive and compelling history of America's Black nuns, “Subversive Habits,” will be published May 17. Sister Delphine Okoro, a nun with the Oblate Sisters of ...

Subversive Habits: Black Catholic Nuns in the Long African American Freedom Struggle Shannen Dee Williams. Duke Univ, $29.95 trade paper (416p) ISBN 978-1-47801-820-9 ...

I was as surprised as the next person when I recognized that I might be drawn to becoming a Catholic nun. I graduated from pharmacy school in 1981 and was out of the church during my college years.

For many of us, our only reference for a Black nun is Whoopi Goldberg as Sister Mary Clarence in the Sister Act franchise. But Shannen D. Williams’ Subversive Habits: Black Catholic Nuns in the ...