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Our History, August 5
James Augustine Healy the first African-American Roman Catholic priest and first African-American bishop in the United States (the archdiocese of Portland, MA) died on this day. Today in 1960, Burkina Faso (Upper Volta) in western Africa was granted its independence from the French.