Diversity, Equity and Unity

Bishop O'Connell High School is pleased to announce that English Department Chair, Brittany Davis, has been named the school's inaugural Director of Diversity, Equity and Unity, whose primary focus is ensure that we are living up to the promise of our mission for all of our students and our community, regardless of their ethnicity and background.

Read the full Sept. 18, 2020 announcement...

"The beauty and test of our culture will be our ability to create harmony in diversity. I look forward to the days to come developing and working alongside each of my colleagues and students to make O'Connell a place that unites all. Go, Knights! "

- Brittany Davis

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Resources from a Catholic Point of View

Open Wide Our Hearts - The Enduring Call to Love - A Pastoral Letter Against Racism, United States Conference of Catholic Bishops, 2018.

Responding to Racism: Understanding, Conversion, Action - Diocese of Arlington with Bishop Michael Burbidge and Rev. Scott Woods. Streamed live, Aug. 25. 2020.

Maryland’s Catholic Bishops Urge People of Faith to Act to End Racism, by Mark Zimmermann, Catholic New Service, June 23, 2020.

If racial justice and peace will ever be attained, it must begin in the church, by Shannen Dee Williams, Catholic News Service, June 10, 2020.

For a Time Like This: The Catholic School Response to Systemic Racism, NCEA Webinar Recording, June 10, 2020. 

Racism and the Catholic Response, Facebook Live with Father Kareem Smith (Archdiocese of NY), June 8, 2020

Juneteenth - An Unforgettable Moment of History, by Juliette Porter Mitchell, Catholic Review, June 17, 2010.