by Tom DeWolf | Apr 13, 2010 | Appearances by Tom, Inheriting the Trade, Race, Oppression, Privilege, Traces of the Trade
I recently completed what is likely my last public presentation in connection with Inheriting the Trade for awhile. I don’t anticipate any speaking appearances until at least mid-September. When we schedule future appearances I hope that many of the organizers...
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...
by Tom DeWolf | Mar 25, 2010 | Race, Oppression, Privilege
On Christmas Eve in 1993 Jamie and Gladys Scott left a mini-mart near their home in Scott County, Mississippi. Their car broke down. They hitched a ride from two young men, one of whom they knew. Later that evening the two men were robbed at gunpoint by three...
by Tom DeWolf | Feb 1, 2010 | History, Genealogy, Race, Oppression, Privilege
Fifty years ago today, on February 1, 1960 in Greensboro, North Carolina, four A&T College freshmen students, Ezell Blair (Jibreel Khazan) Jr., David Richmond, Franklin McCain and Joseph McNeil walked into the downtown Woolworth’s store and sat down at the...
