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Seminaries Start Slavery Reparation Funds Amid Calls For National Program
On NPR’s Morning Edition (October 28, 2019), Tom Gjelton reports on the reparations funds created by Princeton Theological Seminary and Virginia Theological Seminary “as a confession of past sins” in their ties to slavery. But William Darity, professor of public…
Read MoreExperts Question Corporate Inclusion Training
After singer SZA reported that she was racially profiled at a California Sephora cosmetics store, the company shut down all their stores for a one-hour diversity training for all its 16,000 employees. Reporter Karen Grigsby Bates questioned experts about…
Read MoreTalking Race With Young Children
Listen to this segment of the NPR series Parenting: Difficult Conversations created by KQED and Sesame Street by clicking here. Hosts Cory Turner and Anya Kamenetz interview parents and expert Beverly Daniel Tatum about how to talk to children about race…
Read More50 Years Later, Raised Fists During National Anthem Still Resonate
NPR reporter Karen Grigsby Bates relates the story of Tommie Smith and John Carlos, American sprinters who won gold and bronze medals respectively in the 1968 Olympics 200-meter running event, then bowed their heads and raised their black-gloved fists on…
Read MoreRobin DiAngelo On White People’s ‘Fragility’
“White progressives cause the most damage to people of color. . . . Niceness is not only not courageous, niceness is not going to get racism on the table . . . Question of ‘how’ rather than ‘if’ I’ve been…
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