Summer 2015
Table of Contents
Make It Right
In Depth
Explore SectionFrom the Editors
After Baltimore: It’s Time to Make Things Rightâ€
From slavery to police brutality, reconciliation begins with the truthâ€.
Read moreHis Ancestors Were Slave Traders and Hers Were Slaves. What They Learned About Healing from a Roadtrip
We embarked upon a journey to test whether two people —could come to grips with deep, traumatic, historic wounds and find healing. We had no idea where we would end up.
Sharon Leslie Morgan & Thomas Norman DeWolf40 Acres and a Mule Would Be at Least $6.4 Trillion Today—What the U.S. Really Owes Black America
Slavery made America wealthy, and racist policies since have blocked African American wealth-building. Can we calculate the economic damage?
Jeff Neumann & Tracy Matsue Loeffelholz
Meet the Woman Behind #BlackLivesMatter—The Hashtag That Still Fuels a Civil Rights Movement
Alicia Garza and two friends first tweeted #BlackLivesMatter to spark a conversation after the death of Trayvon Martin.
Liz Pleasant
A Rabbi’s Plea: We Need Slavery Reparations In Order to Move Forward
It’s clear that the trauma of slavery continues to impact the contemporary American psyche.
Shmuly Yanklowitz
150 Years Later, Two Universities Answer for Their Founder’s Role in the Sand Creek Massacre
Under pressure from students and community members, Northwestern University and University of Denver take the first steps towards righting historic wrongs.
Ned Blackhawk
The US Has Spent $14B on Community Policing—What Have We Learned So Far?
Gauging whether a community policing program has been successful ultimately depends on how you define success.
Christopher Moraff
Can America Heal Its Racial Wounds? We Asked Desmond Tutu and His Daughter
South Africans surprised everyone by transitioning to a relatively peaceful post-apartheid society. Here’s what Americans can learn.
Sarah van Gelder & Fania Davis
Things White People Should Never Say
Let’s start with “I’m not racist., but ..."
Robert Jensen
The Indigenous Rituals That Heal Us
How the Medicine Wheel can guide us to transform communities that have suffered from racial injustice
Patricia St. Onge
Truth and Reconciliation at Work: How These Commissions Help Heal Wounds From Racial Injustice
Fania Davis explains how Truth and Reconciliation Commissions can help communities heal from a history of racial violence and oppression.
Fania Davis
Solutions We Love
Explore SectionOne Poem That Saved a Forest
How the friendship between a poet and a timber baron kept a grove of California redwoods from clear-cutting.
Jacqueline Suskin
Meet the Scientist Breeding ÎÞÂëÊÓƵ Resilient Bees (And 4 Other People Working to Save the Pollinators)
With honeybee populations on the decline, scientists, lawyers, and even artists have set out to save humanity's most important pollinators.
Miles Schneiderman
The Page That Counts