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 Sharon Morgan | Jul 21, 2013 | Uncategorized
We arrived at the Phillis Wheatley Book Awards program at the Schomburg Center right on time for the 7PM program. After jumping into a “black taxi” at 116th Street for the short ride up Malcolm X Boulevard, we wondered aloud if we had missed something...
by Sharon Morgan | Sep 18, 2012 | Books, Uncategorized, Writing
Creating a book is, in many ways, like having a baby… First, you are impregnated with an idea. You visualize what it will look like and incubate it until it is ready to see the light of day. There are many sleepless nights along the way as you cope with the...
by Sharon Morgan | Aug 28, 2012 | Healing, Peacebuilding, politics, Post Racial Society, Race, Race Relations, Racism, reconciliation, Uncategorized, World affairs
This is a repost of something I wrote on my genealogy blog today: On this day in 1955, an innocent young man named Emmett Till was murdered in Money, Mississippi for allegedly whistling at a white woman. This event embodied all that was wrong with America in that day...
by Thomas Norman DeWolf | Jun 14, 2012 | Uncategorized
I anticipated that I would write today about the class in which I’m participating at the Summer Peacebuilding Institute in Harrisonburg Virginia: “Healing the Wounds of History: Peacebuilding through Transformative Theater.” But an incident in...
by Thomas Norman DeWolf | May 10, 2012 | Uncategorized
My wife Lindi and my friend and writing partner Sharon have gone to sleep. As they rest upstairs, I sit alone in Sharon’s dining room; thinking. The clock that counts down the time until Gather at the Table is published ticks by very quickly. Lindi and I arrived...
