Calumet College of St. Joseph’s charter authority board is holding a 1 p.m. meeting Jan. 29 to consider the application of the Thea Bowman Leadership Academy. The meeting comes in the wake of the Gary ...

Since her untimely death on March 30, 1990, at age 52, at least 16 institutions have taken the name of Sister Thea, from schools and academies to spirituality centers. This spring, Viterbo University ...

Students heading back to school Monday at Gary’s Thea Bowman Leadership Academy will be greeted by staff members dressed as superheroes, but they’ll see something just as exciting inside the school.

Sr. Thea Bowman, F.S.P.A., Ph.D., was born in the small rural town of Canton in Central Mississippi. Her grandfather was a slave; her father was a physician and her mother, a teacher. In 1965, Sr.

GARY — Thea Bowman Leadership Academy students, staff and parents expressed their love and passion for their school Thursday night during a public hearing held by Calumet College of St. Joseph. It ...

SOUTH BEND — The documentary “Going Home Like a Shooting Star: Thea Bowman's Journey to Sainthood” airs locally at 11 a.m. Oct. 2 on ABC57 (WBND). Produced by the South Bend-based NewGroup Media and ...

Students from St. Anthony Catholic School in Washington are seen near a poster of Sister Thea Bowman April 29, 2022. (CNS photo/Tyler Orsburn) WASHINGTON (CNS) — A new documentary on Sister Thea ...

WASHINGTON, D.C. — Officials at The Catholic University of America dedicated and blessed a campus street April 29 named in honor of the late Sister Thea Bowman, a noted educator and evangelist who ...

This is the second time Thea Bowman has had its charter revoked. In 2016 the school's first sponsor, Ball State University, pulled its sponsorship of the school. Thea Bowman applied for authorization ...

It‘s been nearly 30 years since Sr. Thea Bowman famous- ly declared to a gathering of the U.S. Catholic bishops that her “Black self,” with all the Black songs, dances, and traditions she’d imbibed ...

This is an official promotional poster for the documentary “Going Home Like a Shooting Star: Thea Bowman’s Journey to Sainthood.” The documentary will air on ABC stations nationwide beginning Oct. 2, ...