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4/11/2021
What Will be the Terms of Racial Forgiveness in America?
by J. Chester Johnson
Much of today's antiracist discourse among white Americans resembles what anti-Nazi theologian Dietrich Bonhoeffer called "cheap grace" – self-forgivness without cost or atonement for crimes that, while past, nevertheless are deeply present today.
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SOURCE: KPBS
9/6/2020
‘A Journey That We Have To Join Together’: 2 Dutch Women Confront Slavery’s Legacy
Two Dutch women, one white and one Black, met through their shared ancestral connection to the slave trade in Suriname. They have produced an eight-part podcast to encourage the Dutch people to recognize the role slavery played in building the Netherlands.
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SOURCE: Smithsonian
8/20/2020
Two Women, Their Lives Connected by American Slavery, Tackle Their Shared History
No reckoning would be adequate, I knew—but looking away was no longer an option. I wrote to Karen that I was thinking of going to Montgomery to look at the Pickett family papers. She suggested we tackle them together.
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SOURCE: WBUR
8/10/2020
White Author Reflects On Finding, Bringing Together Descendants Of Enslaved People In His Family (Audio)
Author Edward Ball discusses his two books examining the relationship of his white family to slavery and the Ku Klux Klan and the role of white Americans in racial reconcilation.
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SOURCE: Smithsonian
5/1/2020
How 13 Seconds Changed Kent State University Forever
As the 50th anniversary of the Kent State killings passed this week, the University had been advancing along a difficult path to acknowledge the events and introduce new students to the campus's tragic history.
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5/3/2020
Healing And Reconciling History 100 Years After the Elaine Race Massacre
by J. Chester Johnson
The author's realization that his beloved grandfather had participated in a racist massacre in Elaine, Arkansas led him to an unlikely journey of reconciliation with a descendent of one of the victims of that campaign of terror, and an understanding of the need for honesty about how heritage can excuse racism.
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