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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.

 Providence, RI
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Joined July 2015
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Keith Stokes@keithnpt1 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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@propublica25 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_CTE1 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@WordandWay25 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

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@FreeBlackTX9 Aug 2023
Middle Passage Arrival Sites maps.app.goo.gl/Vh5ms6146Jrb…
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Sherri V. Cummings, Ph.D.@svcummings10 May 2023
Now at RIBHS. ...
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Providence Journal@projo6 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?

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@JDeWPerry17 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
@wnknisely21 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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James DeWolf Perry@JDeWPerry9 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

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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@nytimes7 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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Ocean State Media@OSMediaRI15 Nov 2021
A "powerful exhibit that speaks to you about the impacts of the boarding school system, but also the resilience of indigenous people" - Lorén Spears of @TomaquagMuseum see it @universityofri thepublicsradio.org/article/…
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Brown University
@BrownUniversity12 Nov 2021
Fifteen years after publishing a groundbreaking report on its own historical ties to the transatlantic slave trade, Brown today released an expanded second edition of the report amid renewed national conversation on slavery’s legacy. Read more: brown.edu/news/2021-11-12/re…

Fifteen years after its publication, Brown’s watershed Slavery and Justice Report is reinvigorated

A second edition of Brown’s landmark report, which sparked a national conversation on higher education’s entanglements with racial slavery, offers new insights on the document’s persistent and...

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Dorcas International@dii_of_ri12 Nov 2021
Know Your Rights and Get The Facts! We hope you can join us tomorrow - November 13th from 5:00pm - 7:00pm.
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Rhode Island Historical Society@RIHistory10 Nov 2021
Join the Museum of Work and Culture to learn how to edit Wikipedia and help build pages on amazing Rhode Island women! RSVP to [email protected] and find more information here: rihs.org/event/wiki-edit-a-t…
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Ocean State Media@OSMediaRI24 Oct 2021
The site where English colonists massacred hundreds of Narragansett Indians more than 345 years ago has officially been returned to the tribe in a land transfer that’s being described as monumental. thepublicsradio.org/article/…
Site of ‘Great Swamp Massacre’ returned to Narragansett Indian Tribe - TPR: The Public's Radio

Site of ‘Great Swamp Massacre’ returned to Narragansett Indian Tribe - TPR: The Public's Radio

The site where English colonists massacred hundreds of Narragansett Indians more than 345 years ago has officially been returned to the tribe in a land transfer that’s being described as monumental.

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City of Providence@CityofProv22 Oct 2021
Engage in our Truth Telling, Reconciliation, and Reparation work with the African American Ambassador Group by providing your insights and opinions through a brief 5-10 minute survey. rwu.co1.qualtrics.com/jfe/fo…
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The Leadership Conference@civilrightsorg15 Oct 2021
"There is no such thing as a single-issue struggle because we do not live single-issue lives." –Audre Lorde #FridayFeeling
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Uprise RI@UpriseRI12 Oct 2021
Indigenous people and allies protest new Blackstone statue and Columbus Day in Pawtucket upriseri.com/blackstone-stat… @UpriseRI @BellaNoka @KIP401 @NAACPprov @DonGrebien
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Shennette Garrett-Scott@EbonRebel11 Oct 2021
Northeast Slavery Records Index (NESRI), a free & open online searchable compilation of records of enslaved persons + enslavers in NY, ME, NH, VT, MA, RI, CT, and NJ. nesri.us/ @JohnJayCollege of Criminal Justice @AtlanticBlckBx @monmouthu @WitnessStones
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