Black History Month Is More Complicated Than It Seems

Celebrate the story of survival and liberation, but beware dwelling too much on suffering and grievance.

Lance Morrow
Wall Street Journal

How does a person who isn’t black think about Black History Month? With respect? With reverence? With guilt? Curiosity? Indifference?

It depends partly on that person’s own history—on when and how his family arrived in America. Those whose predecessors were present during the wickedness of slavery, and all that followed, will have a livelier sense of the black-and-white binaries of the story than immigrants lately arrived from, say, Kazakhstan. A white New Englander whose ancestors made a fortune in the slave trade, or a Southerner whose forbears exploited black African labor on cotton or rice plantations, will understand the burden of that history. Those whose people came through Ellis Island—potato-famine Irish, Eastern European Jews, Hungarians, Italians—won’t have the same haunted sense of the American past.

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For The Federalist, Nathanael Blake calls out the hypocrisy of Leftists' support for late-term abortion.

For The Telegraph, Henry Olsen writes that Biden needs to stand up to his own party to secure funding to aid Ukraine.

Brad Littlejohn writes for WORLD Opinions that progressives must confront the reality of Biden's advanced age.

Why I Won't Stand for an Open Border

For the EDIFY podcast, Mary FioRito interviews former Commissioner of U.S. Customs and Border Protection Mark Morgan about concern for national security and how it may conflict with the humanitarian response to immigrants crossing our border.

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Thursday, February 22, 2024, 10–11:30 am

Russell Senate Office Building
2 Constitution Avenue Northeast
Washington, DC 20002

University of Maryland economist Melissa Kearney has sparked wide-spread public debate about the decline of marriage and its impact on economic mobility, child well-being, and inequality. Her recent book, The Two-Parent Privilege, offers a data-driven review of marriage’s decline, and what that means for kids. On February 22, she will offer a policy-focused presentation on Capitol Hill, followed by a panel discussion with EPPC’s Patrick T. Brown, Alyssa Rosenberg of the Washington Post, and the Niskanen Center’s Joshua McCabe.

Please join us for a spirited conversation on what—if anything—public policy can do to bolster marriage in the 21st century.

Wednesday, February 28, 2024, 6–8 pm

Catholic Information Center
1501 K Street NW
Washington, DC xxxxxx United States

Join Francis X. Maier for the launch of his new book, True Confessions: Voices of Faith from a Life in the Church, with a response from George Weigel. This event will be offered both in-person and virtually through YouTube. Please register here.

For those attending in-person, True Confessions will be available for purchase in the CIC’s bookstore.

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