Center for Reconciliation

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

[Keith Stokes @keithnpt]

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.

[ProPublica @propublica]

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. https://t.co/RQJLJ0MQox

[Center for Technology in Education @JHU_CTE]

“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: https://t.co/mY02kSdjwy #blackhistorymonth #blackhistory #blm

[Word&Way @WordandWay]

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. https://t.co/01MQrQmFNd

[Andrea Roberts, PhD @FreeBlackTX]

Middle Passage Arrival Sites https://t.co/0Ji6hIJ3Au

[Sherri V. Cummings, Ph.D. @svcummings]

Now at RIBHS. ...

[Providence Journal @projo]

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? https://t.co/sHUDKZPsN5

[Center for Reconciliation @CFRRI]

@SlaveAdverts250 The hypocrisy in that ship's name. Ouch.

[James DeWolf Perry @JDeWPerry]

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. https://t.co/6px6r2vZpj

[Nicholas Knisely @wnknisely]

"The burden imposed on Haiti [is] “perhaps the single most odious sovereign debt in history."
https://t.co/mO039oVx8G

[Center for Reconciliation @CFRRI]

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: https://t.co/eny5KV9ews

[James DeWolf Perry @JDeWPerry]

Please stop saying structural racism doesn't exist. That racism has mostly disappeared. That you don't "believe in" #CriticalRaceTheory. https://t.co/xudQEcO1pJ

[Center for Reconciliation @CFRRI]

Providence creates reparations committee as it seeks to address history of racial injustice https://t.co/XmoevTEB5g

[Center for Reconciliation @CFRRI]

Read the story of Pamela Sparhawk, enslaved and freed in the Boston suburbs. https://t.co/Ywaho9nVZe
@HistoricNewton

[Center for Reconciliation @CFRRI]

Rhode Islanders - there is Black history all around us. https://t.co/PLX91fcX0G @stages_freedom

[Center for Reconciliation @CFRRI]

Check it out

[Edward Fitzpatrick @FitzProv]

A great way to explore Black history in Rhode Island -- Rhode Map by @DanMcGowan https://t.co/Z0F70PgUxD via @BostonGlobe

[Center for Reconciliation @CFRRI]

Just in time for Holocaust Remembrance Day.
We forget/ignore/deny history at our peril.

[Judd Legum @JuddLegum]

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

https://t.co/kpgjoLZQq9

[The New York Times @nytimes]

The three men convicted of killing Ahmaud Arbery were sentenced to life in prison. Only one will be eligible for parole. https://t.co/ncXmXN1D9x