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.
Second White House meeting and frustrations with Obama's response to police violence
Life in "contraband" camps and planning for freedom after emancipation
Impact of legal case on workplace sexual harassment awareness and policy
Lincoln's views on the Fugitive Slave Act and his reverence for the Constitution
Career in legal advocacy and the pursuit of racial justice in the criminal justice system
Lincoln's public statements ahead of issuing the Emancipation Proclamation
Responding to a deceptively edited video and the resulting media firestorm
Regional divisions in Illinois and Chicago's distinct form of racism
The power of imagery in shaping narratives about race and equality
Husband's work under a pseudonym during the blacklist era
“Someone told me the story about the child throwing starfish back into the ocean one at a time. 'It makes a difference to this one.' That's kind of how I've looked at it ever since. I can't be Dolores Huerta or Martin Sheen, but I can do what I can do in the rooms I find myself in to look for that starfish.”
Noah Wyle
Racial bias, procedural technicalities, and accountability in death penalty cases
Trayvon Martin's death and its role in launching My Brother's Keeper
Being overlooked and underrepresented as a woman in Congress in the late 1980s
The historical case for inclusion from the Civil War to the Civil Rights Movement
FDR's white supremacist views and isolation from the West Coast pressure campaign
Being one of few women working as a stockbroker on Wall Street
Challenges faced by minority women in breaking through barriers across decades
Fundamentalist rhetoric, polarization, and the need for nuanced discourse
Racial dimensions of slavery and free labor in the early 19th century
Growing up under systemic racism in the Jim Crow South
