by Tom DeWolf | Nov 22, 2008 | History, Genealogy
I was in Mrs. Gaddis’s class in the second grade at San Jose Elementary School in Pomona, California when Mr. Montieth, a fifth-grade teacher across the lawn, told our class that President Kennedy had been shot. I remember crying that day. How could someone kill...
by Tom DeWolf | May 15, 2008 | History, Genealogy, Race, Oppression, Privilege, Trauma and Healing
When I ran across this story today I was filled with both pain and hope. Christiane Amanpour, the international correspondent for CNN, interviewed Iphigenia Mukantabana, a woman whose husband and five children were slaughtered during the 100-day genocide in Rwanda in...
by Tom DeWolf | Feb 5, 2008 | History, Genealogy
In 2006 PBS presented a 4-part series called African American Lives in which host Henry Louis Gates, Jr. led a group of prominent African Americans–including Whoopi Goldberg, Chris Tucker, and Oprah Winfrey–on a journey of self-discovery about their...
