Hate, interrupted: Coming to the Table offers a way to talk about race
It’s no coincidence that activist Mary Dadone calls Coming to the Table meetings a “12-step program” for racial reconciliation. Jane Carrigan, a co-founder of the Annapolis chapter, has shared with the group her recollection of the white supervisor at her first summer...Two White Colorado Women Turn to Reparations
Lotte Lieb Dula’s grandmother passed away in January, and Dula took up the task of sorting through her things. She found a small, old book that was still well-preserved. Dula opened it to find inventories of slaves, hundreds of them, with their individual monetary...A Moral Debt: The Legacy of Slavery in the USA
Journalist James Gannon has inherited a controversial family legacy – that of a clear descendancy from General Robert E Lee, who led the Confederate Army against the Union during the American Civil war in the mid-19th century. Gannon grew up in Richmond,...Their Ancestors Were on Opposite Sides of a Lynching. Now, They’re Friends.
“The hanging.” For years, Karen Branan, a white woman from Georgia, kept at a safe distance the haunting words that her grandmother had spoken. Ms. Branan was an inquisitive journalist, but she refused to explore a hanging that her grandmother had said was one of her...Our Organization
Coming to the Table is a program of RJOY, Restorative Justice for Oakland Youth
