St. Therese currently serves over 44 zip codes. Families travel from as far as Tacoma and Everett because the new evil is “pricing communities of color” out of the very area once designated ghetto enough for us to reside in. But the community is still here, holding on within the walls of St. Therese classrooms.
In 2023 emigration is still a hot topic in the United states. As we enter Black History Month, I wanted to draw attention and remind us of one of the most tragic moments in our country's history, the Back to Africa Movement and the American Colonization Society.
If you remove from your midst oppression, false accusation and malicious speech; if you bestow your bread on the hungry and satisfy the afflicted; then light shall rise for you in the darkness, and the gloom shall become for you like midday. Isaiah 58:9-10