by Tom DeWolf | Apr 21, 2010 | Healthy Living, Movies, Reviews
The Oscar-nominated (for Best Documentary Film, 2009) Food, Inc. premieres tonight on the acclaimed PBS series P.O.V. (the same wonderful folks responsible for the television premiere of Traces of the Trade) I encourage everyone to watch this informative film. I...
by Tom DeWolf | Apr 19, 2010 | Inheriting the Trade, Politics, Traces of the Trade
On March 30 I wrote about a “weapon” opponents of Goodwin Liu’s nomination have employed: comments Liu made during a panel discussion on May 6, 2008 that I attended following a screening of Traces of the Trade at the Newseum in Washington, DC. This...
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 30, 2010 | Inheriting the Trade, Politics, Traces of the Trade
I did not see this one coming. President Obama has nominated Goodwin Liu, an Associate Dean and Professor of Law at UC Berkeley School of Law, to serve on the 9th Circuit Court of Appeals. Opponents have seized upon comments Liu made during a panel discussion on May...
by Tom DeWolf | Mar 28, 2010 | Coming to the Table, Traces of the Trade
A new website was launched last week by The Tracing Center on Histories and Legacies of Slavery. The mission of The Tracing Center is “to create greater awareness of the vast extent of complicity in slavery and the transatlantic slave trade and to inspire...
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 | Mar 22, 2010 | Politics
Do these people kiss their mothers with those mouths? Calling Rep. John Lewis a n****r?! Rep. Barney Frank a f****t?! Watching and reading the news, it appears that civil debate is presently almost non-existent in our nation. This isn’t about health care....
