Essence Magazine:
By Veronica Wells· Updated September 23, 2022
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 Long African American Freedom Struggle tells the real story of America’s Sister Act.
Williams grew up in a Catholic church. Her mother was one of the first three Black women
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