For 17-year-old Ruth Mekako, the Diocese of Brooklyn’s Black History Month Mass of Thanksgiving, held Feb. 1 at Our Lady of Perpetual Help Church, was as much about representation as it was about worship.
Vicariate Office of Black Catholic Concerns for the Diocese of Brooklyn
King’s ‘I Have a Dream’ Message Is Locked in a Local Woman’s Memory
In the early 1960s, Helen Cureton, originally from Greenville, South Carolina, was in her 20s, single, and working as a radiology technician in Queens.