by Tom DeWolf | Jan 21, 2010 | Coming to the Table, Race, Oppression, Privilege, Trauma and Healing
I’ll be at historic Tougaloo College in Jackson, Mississippi on Saturday, January 30 for this Coming to the Table event. If you have friends in the Jackson area, or if you know folks in the media, please pass along this information. FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE...
by Tom DeWolf | Jan 17, 2010 | Books, Reviews, Coming to the Table, Trauma and Healing
I review books on my blog that are relevant to the issues at the core of my work: social justice, undoing racism, healing from trauma, and so on. I’ll get to today’s book review in a second. First, a little background is in order… Prior to January...
by Tom DeWolf | Jan 13, 2010 | Coming to the Table
Coming to the Table, the organization founded in the spirit of Dr. King’s Dream to bring together descendants of the enslaved and enslavers to address the legacies of slavery that continue to impact all of us today, has launched our new website. I have a dream...
by Tom DeWolf | Aug 22, 2009 | Coming to the Table, History, Genealogy, Race, Oppression, Privilege, Trauma and Healing
My first visit to Jackson coincides with my current reading of Parting the Waters: America in the King Years, 1954-63, by Taylor Branch. Being in the community where many significant events occurred during the civil rights era greatly impacted my time there and served...
by Tom DeWolf | Aug 11, 2009 | Coming to the Table, History, Genealogy, Trauma and Healing
I spent last weekend in Jackson, Mississippi at the last of three retreats dedicated to discovering ways in which the tools of Re-Evaluation Counseling can be applied to the work of Coming to the Table. At our last retreat, in Richmond, Virginia, we spent important...
by Tom DeWolf | May 27, 2009 | Books, Reviews, Coming to the Table, Inheriting the Trade
I received exciting news this morning from Gayatri Patnaik, Senior Editor at Beacon Press (and editor of my book, Inheriting the Trade) that Beacon announced today “an exclusive agreement to partner with the Estate of Martin Luther King Jr. in a new publishing...
