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Repossessions

Repossessions is a group exhibition inspired by the concept of reparations: the effort to repair the economic and psychological devastation caused by slavery for descendants of enslaved African Americans. It…

BitterSweet EditorsApril 23, 2025

Healing, Repair & Action Linked Descendants

Shared Stories: Coming Together, Staying Together

Have you wondered what it would be like to discover a shared historical or genetic connection with another person defined by slavery? Or, while researching your ancestry, discover a link…

BitterSweet EditorsSeptember 30, 2024

Healing, Repair & Action Linked Descendants

New Book: The Reparations Project

Fellow BitterSweet participant Sarah Eisner has just published a book, The Reparations Project, with her Reparations Project partner and co-founder, Randy Quarterman. The book is written in alternating chapters by Randy…

BitterSweet EditorsSeptember 26, 2024

Research & Finding Documents

A Writing Craft Conversation with Dionne Ford, Author of Go Back and Get It

On October 25, 2023 Dionne Ford, author of the memoir Go Back and Get It: A Memoir of Race, Inheritance, and Intergenerational Healing (2023), answered questions from participants of the…

BitterSweet EditorsNovember 29, 2023

Healing, Repair & Action

Which Enslaver Stories Should Be Told: sharing truths while minimizing harm

Foundational to Coming To The Table is the belief in the healing power of story-telling, including the sharing of stories that are difficult and have been obscured from our histories.…

BitterSweet EditorsNovember 5, 2023

Healing, Repair & Action

How one researcher used a Civil War pension application to uncover family history

We are happy to bring you the story of Jesse Lee, a veteran of the 1st Virginia Cavalry and the 2nd great-grandfather of LeRoy G. Potts. LeRoy wrote about his…

BitterSweet EditorsJuly 21, 2023

Slavery & Its Legacies

Why I Don’t Use the n-word

Marion Tango read this powerful original poem at the 2023 Coming to the Table National Gathering. Watch and listen here to Marion Why I Don’t Use the n-word It’s…

BitterSweet EditorsJune 21, 2023

Healing, Repair & Action

A Third Way to Be a Confederate Descendant?

--By BitterSweet Editors "What if, when people picture folks with Confederate heritage, they imagine people — Black, White, and multiracial — who hold a special commitment to destroying White supremacy?"…

BitterSweet EditorsJanuary 21, 2023

History, Culture, People, Places & Events

The Crime of My Life — Investigating an Old Family Crime with Contemporary Implications

Although Baynard Woods is an accomplished journalist, we first came across his name in a piece he wrote for the Washington Post called “My name is a Confederate monument, so…

BitterSweet EditorsAugust 23, 2022

Healing, Repair & Action

Visualizing Our Histories, Our Stories — Part 5

This is the final post in our series that started in 2021, where we share artwork and writeups of the creative process, from our Linked Descendants’ working group members. Some…

BitterSweet EditorsAugust 8, 2022