by Tom DeWolf | Jul 24, 2009 | Politics, Race, Oppression, Privilege
Like many Americans, I have followed closely the story of the arrest of Harvard professor Dr. Henry Louis Gates, Jr., by Cambridge police officer Sgt. James Crowley for disorderly conduct. This is, as Dr. Gates said during a CNN interview on July 22, “an...
by Tom DeWolf | Jul 2, 2009 | Books, Reviews, Race, Oppression, Privilege
What is the What is the latest book by Dave Eggers, author of A Heartbreaking Work of Staggering Genius. Though the subtitle is “The Autobiography of Valentino Achak Deng” What is the What is categorized as fiction. Valentino was quite young when the...
by Tom DeWolf | Jun 25, 2009 | History, Genealogy, Inheriting the Trade, Race, Oppression, Privilege, Traces of the Trade
Does anyone out there know Chris Matthews, host of Hardball on MSNBC? I’d like to send him a copy of my book, Inheriting the Trade. My impression is that, like my own, his education lacked some aspects of our nation’s history that have been kept hidden...
by Tom DeWolf | Jun 19, 2009 | History, Genealogy, Race, Oppression, Privilege
I’m in Tucson, Arizona today–Juneteenth–for the Institute of Noetic Sciences 13th International Conference. No matter how hot it gets (weather report forecasting 107!) I’m glad to be here; blessed to be able to work again with Belvie Rooks. Our...
by Tom DeWolf | Jun 15, 2009 | History, Genealogy, Politics, Race, Oppression, Privilege
United States Senator Tom Harkin (D-Iowa) has introduced a concurrent resolution that would offer a formal apology to African Americans for the wrongs committed against them and their ancestors who suffered under slavery and Jim Crow laws that lasted until the...
by Tom DeWolf | Jun 12, 2009 | History, Genealogy, Race, Oppression, Privilege, Trauma and Healing
June 12, 2009. 46 years ago today Medgar Evers was murdered in his driveway in Jackson, Mississippi by a white supremacist. He was the NAACP Field Secretary in Mississippi. Medgar’s efforts were instrumental in the desegregation of the University of Mississippi....
