by Tom DeWolf | Oct 26, 2010 | Books, Reviews, Inheriting the Trade
United Methodist Women, the largest denominational faith organization for women with roughly 800,000 members, has selected Inheriting the Trade for their 2011 Reading Program. A diverse range of books are selected each year, spread among four categories. Inheriting...
by Tom DeWolf | Oct 25, 2010 | Race, Oppression, Privilege, Traces of the Trade
I’m excited to spread the word that my cousin Elizabeth Sturges Llerena will have an exhibition of her artwork–dynamic images that explore New England’s complicity in the system of enslavement and its legacy today–at Linden Place Museum in...
by Tom DeWolf | Oct 23, 2010 | Appearances by Tom, Inheriting the Trade
I spent the past week working in Bermuda. I know, I know, rough duty but someone’s gotta do it, right? The fact is that racism grows in tropical climates as effectively as anywhere else and it takes dedicated people of good conscience to work toward uprooting...
by Tom DeWolf | Oct 17, 2010 | Books, Reviews
I spent several days this past week in San Francisco with my dear friends Belvie Rooks and Dedan Gills, co-founders of Growing a Global Heart. We shared our stories of “Slavery’s Legacy: What Would Healing Look Like” with audiences at the California...
by Tom DeWolf | Oct 12, 2010 | Race, Oppression, Privilege
In today’s New York Times, columnist Bob Herbert focuses on the plight of sisters Jamie and Gladys Scott. For seventeen years now, these two women have languished in a Mississippi prison after being convicted of setting two guys up to be robbed of $11. As...
