Larretta Rivera-Williams

Mercy Sr. Larretta Rivera-Williams is originally from Winston-Salem, North Carolina. She is coordinator of pastoral care at St. Leo the Great Catholic Church in her hometown. Since entering the Sisters of Mercy in 1982, she has ministered as an elementary, secondary and divinity school educator. She has written and produced plays as well as directed and choreographed. Prior to her ministry at St. Leo, she was an associate chaplain at Wake Forest University in Winston-Salem.

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The Edmund Pettus Bridge is seen in Selma, Alabama, in 2015. (CNS/Reuters/Jim Young)

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Mama, please, I can't breathe!

Blistering bigotry burns deep into the souls of people of color. African Americans live with the possibility that racism will flare up every day, and by the end of the day we can be emotionally and spiritually drained.