by giavanni.washington | May 21, 2014 | News
“It’s a good thing Joe McGill doesn’t believe in ghosts. Some people would say he spends an awful lot of time around them. McGill travels the country sleeping in some of the darkest corners of American history — the places where slaves once lived. On Friday...
by giavanni.washington | Mar 4, 2014 | News
“Tom DeWolf talked about the book, Gather at the Table: The Healing Journey of a Daughter of Slavery and a Son of the Slave Trade, in which he and his co-author, Sharon Morgan, tell the story of two people confronting the legacy of slavery and racism in America....
by giavanni.washington | Oct 1, 2013 | News
“Whenever I mention certain cousins, I have to put air quotes around the word so my husband knows which ones I mean. No air quotes means they’re the ones I’m related to through blood. Air quotes, and I’m referring to the ones whose family used to own mine. They...
by giavanni.washington | Oct 21, 2012 | News
Melissa Harris-Perry Show – Sharon Morgan and Tom DeWolf, CTTT members, discuss their book Gather at the Table, and about “living” the CTTT Approach together. Watch Part One here and Part Two here. Interview by Melissa Harris-Perry for...
by giavanni.washington | Apr 12, 2012 | News
In the nearly three dozen former slave quarters that Joseph McGill Jr. has slept in, he said he’s never felt the presence of the oppressed inhabitants. Nor does he want to. “I am not hoping for that to happen. Because those folks who experienced that place...
by giavanni.washington | Mar 30, 2012 | News
CTTT member Grant Hayter-Menzies meets with descendants of Guy Drock, a man enslaved by his family in Connecticut in the mid-1700s. “When descendants of Norwich slave Guy Drock and the man who owned him met for the first time Thursday, they weren’t sure what...