Stories - Life Stories
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Our stories are about how people make sense of their own lives, how they can shed light on our lives, and how we are connected to one another, to history, and to the larger human story.
The Dred Scott decision and its impact on anti-slavery politics
Title IX's impact on women's access to education and professional fields
Disappointment in Obama's use of the bully pulpit on race and policing
Lincoln's constitutional authority concerns and the path to the Emancipation Proclamation
Parks' editorial tensions at Life and "The Atmosphere of Crime" series
Urban renewal, displacement, and contradictions in Washington D.C.'s landscape
Gordon Parks as a warrior for justice and his impact on Black dignity
EJI's strategic expansion from death penalty work to broader racial justice initiatives
Influence of the Haitian Revolution on enslaved people's political awareness
Bryan Stevenson's argument that slavery evolved into new forms of racial oppression
“See the dysfunction, but don't give up the human being. We can begin to talk to each other and begin to tell the truth.”
James Cromwell
Mother's instruction to remember Auschwitz upon their escape
Script changes that reduced Uhura's dialogue throughout production
Diverse degrees of freedom among colonial Americans before the Revolution
Obama administration's handling of the Shirley Sherrod controversy
Personal preparations and departure for D-Day marches on May 2, 1963
The Pact of Umar and its legacy of intolerance within Islam
Navigating gender bias while leading an orchestra as a woman
Adopting the stage name Sheen to avoid anti-Latino prejudice in New York
Racist caricatures of Black people in Northern publications during the Civil War
Police violence against young marchers during Double D-Day in Birmingham
