National Black Sisters' Conference

National Black Sisters' Conference
AbbreviationNBSC
Formation1968
FounderMartin de Porres Grey
Founded atPittsburgh, Pennsylvania
HeadquartersWashington, D.C.
Region
United States
President
Addie Lorraine Walker
SubsidiariesNational Black Catholic Women's Gathering
AffiliationsBlack Catholic Joint Conference
Websitehttps://www.nbsc68.org/

The National Black Sisters' Conference (NBSC) is an association of Black Catholic religious sisters and nuns based in the United States. It was founded in Pittsburgh in 1968 by then-Mercy Sister Martin de Porres Grey, following her exclusion from the inaugural meeting of the National Black Catholic Clergy Caucus earlier that same year.[1]

Grey led the conference until her departure from religious life in 1974.[1][2]

Harriet Tubman Award

Each year at the Black Catholic Joint Conference of Black sisters, priests and brothers, seminarians, and deacons and their wives, the NBSC awards the Harriet Tubman Award to a Black sister who "through her ministry is an advocate for Black people".[citation needed]

Awardees have included:

Award year Recipient
1984 Joel B. Clarke
1985 Thea Bowman
1986 Elizabeth Harris
1987 Calista Robinson
1988 Delores Harrall
1989 Mary Antona Ebo
1990 Louis Marie Bryan
1991 Cora M. Billings
1992 Roland Lagarde
1993 Patricia Haley
1994 Beatrice Jeffries
1995 Loretta T. Richards
1996 Lucy Williams
1997 Patricia J. Chappell
1998 Anita Baird
1999 Jamie T. Phelps
2000 Roberta Fulton
2001 Eva Marie Martin
2002 Jane Nesmith
2003 Josita Colbert
2004 Juanita Shealey
2005 Barbara Spears
2006 Magdala Marie Gilbert
2007 Rosetta M. Brown
2008 Donna Banfield
2009 Maria G. Mannix
2010 Mary Ann Henegan
2011 Rosella Marie Holloman
2012 Patricia Lucas
2013 Gayle Lwanga Crumbley
2014 Barbara Croom
2015 Ronnie Grier
2016 Patricia Rogers
2017 Beulah Martin
2018 Thelma Mitchell
2019 Patricia Ralph
2020
2021
2022 Addie Lorraine Walker

References

  1. ^ a b "A sisters' community apologizes to one woman whose vocation was denied". Global Sisters Report. 2018-01-08. Retrieved 2021-11-15.
  2. ^ Copeland, M. Shawn (1996). "A Cadre of Women Religious Committed to Black Liberation: The National Black Sisters' Conference". U.S. Catholic Historian. 14 (1): 123–144. ISSN 0735-8318.