Fraternity
Last updated October 31, 2026
By Diane Brady
In 1968 the Reverend John Brooks, a Jesuit priest at the College of the Holy Cross, recruited about twenty young Black men to the mostly white Massachusetts college. Journalist Diane Brady follows five of them, including future Supreme Court justice Clarence Thomas and lawyer Ted Wells, through college and beyond, showing how they faced racism, campus politics and one another, and how Brooks's mentorship shaped the men they became.
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