by Thomas Norman DeWolf | Feb 25, 2026 | Sharon Morgan
January 30, 1951 – February 24, 2026 My beloved friend and Gather at the Table co-author, Sharon Leslie Morgan, has joined the ancestors. I was not expecting this. We talk regularly. We last spoke on her birthday just three weeks ago. She had survived breast cancer,...
by Thomas Norman DeWolf | Mar 1, 2015 | Book Tour, Trauma
“It’s not supposed to be like this,” Sharon said the morning we visited Ferguson. She and I have gone to many cemeteries over the years in our genealogical quests. “Cemeteries are places where we expect to find dead people.” Yeah,...
by Thomas Norman DeWolf | Feb 26, 2015 | Uncategorized
Sharon Morgan originally posted this on Our Black Ancestry: Black History Month 2015 is almost over. As I do every year, I spent the past few weeks gorging myself on the glut of special programming on TV – feature films, documentaries, and other programs with African...
by Thomas Norman DeWolf | Sep 20, 2014 | Book Tour
Sharon and I spoke before more than 1,000 corporate leaders from around the world on September 17 at the 20th Annual General Electric African American Forum Global Symposium in Washington, DC. If the world is going to change when it comes to issues of race, Corporate...
by Thomas Norman DeWolf | Dec 3, 2013 | Books
Give copies of Gather at the Table to your friends, family, and professional colleagues this Holiday Season and you will SAVE MONEY and HELP A GREAT CAUSE! Our publisher, Beacon Press, has partnered with the non-profit organization at the foundation of our healing...
by Thomas Norman DeWolf | Nov 18, 2013 | Civil War
November 19, 2013 marks the 150th anniversary of the Gettysburg Address. PBS and documentary filmmaker Ken Burns launched a national effort to encourage people to video record themselves reciting President Abraham Lincoln’s famous speech, one of the most...
by Thomas Norman DeWolf | Oct 13, 2013 | Awards, Books, Harlem Book Fair, Phillis Wheatley Book Award
This past week we sent the following message to the more than 6,300 readers on our e-Mail list. Since there are many folks who follow our blog and Facebook page who may not be on our mailing list, we share the message here as well. if you are in a READING CLUB…...
by Thomas Norman DeWolf | Oct 2, 2013 | Reader Comments, Reviews
As the paperback version of Gather at the Table is released this month (due out from Beacon Press on October 15), we want to share the following message that was recently sent to Sharon and me by Helen Nadler. A friend to us both, a distant cousin to Tom, Helen opened...
by Thomas Norman DeWolf | Sep 19, 2013 | Books
NOTE: As of October 31, this promotion has ENDED. We’re excited to announce that the Paperback version of Gather at the Table will be released on October 15 by Beacon Press! Sharon and I, along with our publisher Beacon Press, are quite pleased with the...
by Thomas Norman DeWolf | Aug 23, 2013 | Reviews
As we prepare for the October 15 release of the paperback edition of Gather at the Table, we were thrilled to learn that our book was to be reviewed in the Fall edition of YES! Magazine. Not only does the reviewer, Lisa Gale Garrigues, call GATT “brave and...
