Jun. 26, 2008

by Robert P. Foxworth

Dear Dr. Chafe:

Having read Civilities and Civil Rights, I came to your recent Greensboro presentation with great anticipation that you would apply the same power of analysis that you gave to Greensboro's history from 1940-1970 to subsequent events in Greensboro's more recent history. I was disappointed. Not only did you not speak with that power, your talk displayed a lack of knowledge, justifiable only because the program listed your subject as the period covered by your...  

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Jun. 11, 2008

by Dr. Hollyce (Sherry) Giles

"How do we defy the logic that we [African-Americans and Latinos] are each other’s enemies? Until globalization itself goes, this is how it’s going to be. We can annihilate and cannibalize each other. Yet, there is no danger that doesn’t have a flip side—we can learn to understand each other’s language."

- Rev. Nelson Johnson, at the April 29th community meeting on the project’s findings

These sobering, yet hopeful reflections by...  

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Jun. 3, 2008

by Jean Rodenbough

Sometimes other languages can supplement our thinking in concepts that English words cannot provide except through longer phrases. To borrow from other tongues is a way to stretch our own world views and understand what we may not have fully comprehended before. I’m thinking of two African expressions that meet this criteria.

When Bishop Desmond Tutu spoke at a Forum at the National Cathedral last November (in fact, on the day when a group of us were catching a plane to...  

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