The Equal Justice Initiative
How does Chatham County heal from the ‘disfiguring fire’ of racism?
INTERVIEWS AND OPINION
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Is Chatham County ready to memorialize its six lynching victims? Or does this ‘hidden history’ need to remain hidden? PART IBY BILL HORNER III, PublisherNote to readers: This is the first of a two-part story about the legacy of Chatham County’s lynching victims and an effort by some local residents to memorialize them. [Read more]
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Is Chatham ready to memorialize its six lynching victims? Part II
Chatham News + Record Friday, September 13, 2019 |
This is the second of a two-part story examining the effort of some Chatham residents to memorialize the victims of the county’s racial terror lynchings. [Read more]
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A debt owed The cost of economic injustice
Chatham News + Record Friday, October 9, 2020
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There are many areas of injustice that need our attention today, such as criminal injustice, inequality in our health care system, inequity in our educational systems, and I could go on. But I believe the greatest area of need currently is a focus on economic injustice. [Read more]
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Chatham News + Record Friday, October 2, 2020
For Black Americans, it's been opportunities lost |
Here’s a list of a few of the actions taken over the past 165 years — since the end of the Civil War — that have resulted in opportunities taken away from Black Americans. [Read more]
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A Chatham diplomat looks at reconciliation, lasting benefits
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W. Robert Pearson’s career as a diplomat and leader of an international humanitarian charity (IREX) has seen him engaged in reconciliation, problem solving and building relationships worldwide over four decades. With political and racial divisiveness on the rise, Pearson is actively engaged — along with leaders throughout the county — in discussing how the healing process of reconciliation works. In this two-part interview with News + Record Publisher Bill Horner III, Pearson discusses what reconciliation is and how it might happen in Chatham County [Read more]
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Chatham resident Pearson examines lasting benefits
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In the second of this two-part interview with News + Record Publisher Bill Horner III, former U.S. diplomat W. Robert Pearson, 77, looks at the healing process of reconciliation at a time when political and racial divisiveness are on the rise. Pearson, the former leader of an international humanitarian charity (IREX), has been engaged in reconciliation, problem-solving and building relationships worldwide for more than four decades. [Read more]
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Repaying a mounting moral debtChatham News + Record Friday, June 5, 2020 |
Life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness — unalienable rights — endowed by our Creator — for all men and women — forever. That is the promise we made to ourselves 243 years ago in our Declaration of Independence. We then created a Constitution to make these promises so: the guarantee of equal protection of the law — equal justice — for all Americans — for all Americans. Whatever may be the views of individual Americans, there will never be the domestic tranquility our Constitution promises until those guarantees are the warp and weave — the very fabric — of American lives.[Read more]
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