by Tom DeWolf | Oct 8, 2010 | Traces of the Trade
Kudos to my cousins Dain and Constance Perry. They stay very busy traveling around the country, screening the Emmy-nominated documentary film of our family journey Traces of the Trade, and inviting people into a deep conversation about racism and the legacy of...
by Tom DeWolf | Oct 1, 2010 | Appearances by Tom, Inheriting the Trade, Traces of the Trade
Inheriting the Trade has been selected for “The Big Read” this summer and fall in Bermuda. Last April, my cousin Katrina Browne–producer/director/writer of Traces of the Trade: A Story from the Deep North–was invited to Bermuda to present the...
by Tom DeWolf | Sep 29, 2010 | Race, Oppression, Privilege
Whenever you have a vulnerable population living amidst a much more powerful one, there’s always the potential for exploitation that at its worst can become a story of modern day slavery. In the United States, we have a vast immigrant population; many of these...
by Tom DeWolf | Sep 24, 2010 | Author Stuff, Writing, Books, Reviews
For anyone who writes, wants to write, or dreams of writing… I’ve come across some absolute gems by subscribing to Powell’s Books Review-a-Day service. One such book was Robert D. Richardson’s wonderful First We Read, Then We Write: Emerson on...
by Tom DeWolf | Sep 19, 2010 | Politics
Earlier this year I wrote about an American tragedy; a travesty of so-called justice involving two black women: sisters Jamie and Gladys Scott. For those who didn’t see it, in 1993 these two women left a mini-mart near their home in Mississippi. When their car...
by Tom DeWolf | Sep 17, 2010 | Appearances by Tom, Books, Reviews
Fall for the Book is a week-long, multiple venue, regional literary festival that takes place next week at George Mason University in Fairfax, Virginia and other locations throughout Northern Virginia, D.C., and Maryland. Okay, okay, so the title of this post is your...
by Tom DeWolf | Sep 14, 2010 | Politics, Traces of the Trade
My cousin James DeWolf Perry has a new post today at his blog The Living Consequences about the ongoing saga of law professor Goodwin Liu’s nomination to the 9th Circuit Court of Appeals by President Obama. I first wrote in March about the controversy...
by Tom DeWolf | Sep 9, 2010 | Race, Oppression, Privilege
Most people have, by now, heard about Reverend Terry Jones. He’s the pastor of a small church in Gainesville, Florida who plans to burn copies of the Qur’an this Saturday evening September 11, the 9th anniversary of the attack on the World Trade Center and...
by Tom DeWolf | Aug 31, 2010 | Peacebuilding, Race, Oppression, Privilege
My friend Molly Secours has written a brilliant and thoughtful essay entitled “Katie Couric Interviews God About Ground Zero Mosque.” I encourage all my friends to read it. I look forward to your thoughts…
by Tom DeWolf | Aug 23, 2010 | Books, Reviews, History, Genealogy, Movies, Reviews
Throughout American history John Adams has mostly lingered in the shadows beneath his contemporaries George Washington and Thomas Jefferson. Washington was “first in the hearts of his countrymen.” Jefferson wrote the Declaration of Independence. Adams was...
