Virginia Gov. Northam Plans His ‘Racial Reconciliation Tour’
NPR’s Michel Martin asks what reconciliation looks like. Her guests: Rich Harwood of The Harwood Institute, Russell Moore of the Southern Baptist Convention and genealogist, Our Black Ancestry founder, and Coming to the Table member Sharon Leslie Morgan. To...Why You Should Dig Up Your Family’s History — and How to Do It
“When I started, you had to do all of this manually,” said Sharon Morgan, founder of OurBlackAncestry.com. “You had to actually go to the place where your family came from and do the research in the courthouse.” Now, many documents have been digitized and are readily...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,...Our Organization
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