by Tom DeWolf | Jun 22, 2010 | Coming to the Table, History, Genealogy, Movies, Reviews
A wonderful new resource is available for everyone who works for truth, justice, and healing in the face of the damage inflicted by racism. The film I Can Tell the World: Singing to Heal Our Racial Divide is available for purchase at all the usual places, or for rent...
by Tom DeWolf | May 5, 2010 | History, Genealogy, Race, Oppression, Privilege
I’ve thought a lot over the past month about Virginia Governor Bob McDonnell’s decision to revive the practice of “recognizing” April as Confederate History Month. It is easy, and perhaps accurate, to chalk it up to politics. There has been no...
by Tom DeWolf | Apr 27, 2010 | History, Genealogy, Race, Oppression, Privilege
Do you think less often these days about the devastation and mass deaths Haiti recently suffered as a result of the January earthquake? That would be normal. It’s no longer in the news. Other stories have taken its place in the news cycle. Perhaps you made a...
by Tom DeWolf | Apr 11, 2010 | Author Stuff, Writing, Books, Reviews, Coming to the Table, History, Genealogy, Race, Oppression, Privilege
If you are a “white” descendant of someone who enslaved African people, two close friends of mine, Susan Hutchison and David Pettee, would love to hear from you. They are gathering stories that connect us with a part of our national history that has been...
by Tom DeWolf | Apr 4, 2010 | History, Genealogy, Race, Oppression, Privilege
Here is the true meaning and value of compassion and nonviolence, when it helps us to see the enemy’s point of view, to hear his questions, to know his assessment of ourselves. For from his view we may indeed see the basic weaknesses of our own condition, and if...
by Tom DeWolf | Apr 1, 2010 | History, Genealogy, Race, Oppression, Privilege, Traces of the Trade
My cousins Katrina Browne and James DeWolf Perry, along with Project Director Tulaine Shabazz Marshall, returned home from Cuba yesterday (March 31) after joining the team from the Freedom Schooner Amistad as part of the United Nations commemoration of March 25 as the...
