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May. 30, 2008
GTCRP Local Task Force continues the work of T&R
by Kyle Lambelet
The Local Task Force of the Greensboro Truth and Community Reconciliation Project met last Tuesday evening, May 27th. Since it's genesis in 2002, the group has given life and energy to the process of Truth and Reconciliation in Greensboro, surrounding the events of Nov. 3rd, 1979 (read more in the Final Report of the Greensboro Truth and Reconciliation Commission).
Since the closing of the Commission in 2006, the group...
May. 22, 2008
Be Not Distracted: A statement to North Carolina Voters
by the North Carolina Coalition of Civil Rights Activists and Ministers
The people of North Carolina and the nation face massive social problems that must be addressed now. Election campaigns are the only time when political leaders must stand up and say how they will address these problems so we can intelligently choose between the candidates.
Unfortunately, the pattern just before many Southern elections has featured a well-financed last-minute effort to distract us from thoughtfully choosing the candidates best able to address our economic and moral...
May. 15, 2008
Labels: A prose poem
by Jean Rodenbough
First I was, by birthright, a conservative like the rest of my family,
active in politics of the Right during college and fearful of Communists,
then I moved leftward after marriage until I claimed with pride the label
of liberal. I loved the word and did all the things that would put me
into the liberal camp like make friends with the black community during those
dangerous civil rights times when to question prejudices was unacceptable
by the social crowd I ran...
May. 12, 2008
Building Black, Brown, and White Unity
by Arletha Jowers
On Tuesday April 29th, Guilford College students joined with the Beloved Community Center to initiate a dialogue with African American and Latino community members to discuss our cultural differences and likenesses. The students at Guilford conducted research on how the two groups feel toward each other with the guidance of their team leader, Dr. Sherri Giles. There were about 40 people there, Black, Latino, and White.
The research confirmed what a lot of us already know: that we...
May. 1, 2008
The End of Obama-Magic and the Return of Politics as Usual
by Ed Whitfield
Barack Obama's Winston Salem denunciation of Reverend Jeremiah Wright for the audacity of telling the truth eases us back down to the familiar from that magic world where one might be half-black and half-white and where the widening gap between America's increasingly wealthy and the dispossessed darker inner cities is celebrated as progress to be built upon.
Barack Obama calls upon his mixed parentage and success in spite of an unstable youth as signs of new possibilities growing...