reconciliation
June 12, 2009
- The following is presented in honor of Juneteenth, the traditional commemoration of the celebration that dates back to June19, 1865, when African-American slaves in Galveston, Texas, learned for the first time about the Emancipation Proclamation that had been issued to free them two years earlier. They decided that was a very good reason for a party and generations have kept it going every year ...
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June 12, 2009
- The following is presented in honor of Juneteenth, the traditional commemoration of the celebration that dates back to June19, 1865, when African-American slaves in Galveston, Texas, learned for the first time about the Emancipation Proclamation that had been issued to free them two years earlier. They decided that was a very good reason for a party and generations have kept it going every ...
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September 20, 2008
- I'll be speaking informally about how I came to write Love Cemetery, a non-fiction book, set in East Texas, on race and reconciliation. I'm known for writing about women's spirituality, pilgrimages and women activists around the world. So it's natural to be asked what race has to do with it. I'll tell how my travels took me from the American wilderness, to India, Nepal, Brazil, ...
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September 20, 2008
- I'll be speaking informally about how I came to write Love Cemetery, a non-fiction book, set in East Texas, on race and reconciliation. I'm known for writing about women's spirituality, pilgrimages and women activists around the world. So it's natural to be asked what race has to do with it. I'll tell how my travels took me from the American wilderness, to India, Nepal, Brazil, ...
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August 27, 2008
- We are working to catalyze a greatly needed national dialogue on race and reconciliation. The footage we have shows a community overcoming difference to find connection, it shows people speaking truth to power and telling the buried stories of their ancestors. Stories can change hearts. They open us up to a full-body change, embodiment, not just a changed mind.The book had sparked a public ...
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