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Center for Reconciliation @CFRRI

The Center for Reconciliation’s mission is to foster racial reconciliation and racial justice by confronting the legacy of slavery.

Joined July 2015
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Keith Stokes@keithnpt
1 Aug 2024
Well before Juneteenth, Rhode Island has been celebrating slavery emancipation on August 1st known as Emancipation Day. The Rhode Island African heritage community would come together annually to celebrate the British and later American slavery emancipation.
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ProPublica
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25 Feb 2024
A newspaper ad from 1835 revealed a slave auction larger than any historian had discovered. This is what we know about that auction — who orchestrated it, who profited and what happened to the enslaved people at the center of it. propublica.org/article/how-g…

How a Grad Student Uncovered the Largest Known Slave Auction in the U.S.

Lauren Davila made a stunning discovery as a graduate student at the College of Charleston: an ad for a slave auction larger than any historian had yet identified. The find yields a new understanding...

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Center for Technology in Education@JHU_CTE
1 Feb 2024
“This is our national truth: America would not be America without the wealth from black labor, without black striving, black ingenuity, black resistance." - Nikole Hannah-Jones Read more about Black History Month: bit.ly/3GyvlEn #blackhistorymonth #blackhistory #blm
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Word&Way@WordandWay
25 Sep 2023
New stained-glass windows depicting racial justice protests by African Americans have replaced the panes honoring Confederate generals Robert E. Lee and Stonewall Jackson at the Washington National Cathedral. wordandway.org/2023/09/25/na…

National Cathedral Windows Shift From Themes of Confederacy to Racial Justice - Word&Way

'There is a lot of work yet to be done to confront systemic racism,' said the cathedral's Dean Randy Hollerith.

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Andrea Roberts, PhD@FreeBlackTX
9 Aug 2023
Middle Passage Arrival Sites maps.app.goo.gl/Vh5ms6146Jrb…

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Sherri V. Cummings, Ph.D.@svcummings
10 May 2023
Now at RIBHS. ...
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Providence Journal@projo
6 Apr 2023
A stained-glass window in the former St. Mark's Church in Warren shows images of Jesus with Mary and Martha, all of whom are depicted as people of color. Could this be the first public works to depict them as people of color? providencejournal.com/in-dep…

Could this RI stained-glass window redefine how Jesus was represented for Art historians?

The 1877 window may be the first public works to depict Jesus Christ and the gospel women Mary and Martha as people of color. Where does it belong?

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James DeWolf Perry@JDeWPerry
17 Jun 2022
Slavery, including buying and selling human beings, was a core part of early American life for Jamestown, R.I. Today, the town is taking steps to repair that legacy, creating a scholarship in honor of a family it sold in 1791 and embracing #Juneteenth. abc6.com/local-ri-community-…
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Nicholas Knisely@wnknisely
21 May 2022
"The burden imposed on Haiti [is] “perhaps the single most odious sovereign debt in history." nytimes.com/2022/05/20/world…
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Join us Thursday evening at 7 pm to learn about the City of Providence's Framework for Reconciliation. On Zoom. Get the link at Eventbrite: eventbrite.com/e/29685687590…
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James DeWolf Perry@JDeWPerry
9 Mar 2022
Please stop saying structural racism doesn't exist. That racism has mostly disappeared. That you don't "believe in" #CriticalRaceTheory. washingtonpost.com/climate-e…

Redlining means 45 million Americans are breathing dirtier air, 50 years after it ended

Decades of federal housing discrimination known as redlining accounts for the fact that 45 million Americans are breathing dirtier air today, according to a study released Wednesday.

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Providence creates reparations committee as it seeks to address history of racial injustice wpri.com/news/local-news/pro…

Providence creates reparations committee as it seeks to address history of racial injustice

On Monday, Mayor Jorge Elorza held a news conference to launch the “Framework for Reconciliation” and sign an executive order creating the Providence Municipal Reparations Commission.

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Read the story of Pamela Sparhawk, enslaved and freed in the Boston suburbs. express.adobe.com/page/A4utC… @HistoricNewton
Rhode Islanders - there is Black history all around us. stagesoffreedom.org/on-the-r… @stages_freedom

ON THE RHODE TO FREEDOM | stagesoffreedom

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Edward Fitzpatrick@FitzProv
4 Feb 2022
A great way to explore Black history in Rhode Island -- Rhode Map by @DanMcGowan bostonglobe.com/2022/02/04/m… via @BostonGlobe
Just in time for Holocaust Remembrance Day. We forget/ignore/deny history at our peril.
Judd Legum
@JuddLegum
26 Jan 2022
The Mcminn County School board in Tennessee just voted to ban a Pulitzer Prize-winning graphic novel about the Holocaust The vote was 10-0 tnholler.com/2022/01/mcminn-…
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The New York Times
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7 Jan 2022
The three men convicted of killing Ahmaud Arbery were sentenced to life in prison. Only one will be eligible for parole. nyti.ms/3t3qDtb
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Check out Episcopal Peace Fellowship's Peacebuilding Online Project with Dr Catherine Meeks of the Absalom Jones Center for Racial Healing eventbrite.com/e/episcopal-p… @Eventbrite
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