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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

Healing, Repair & Action

Healing Histories: Can Enslaver Descendants Tell Their Ancestral Stories Without Causing Further Harm?

— By Leslie Stainton Not long ago, a colleague suggested I stop writing about my enslaving ancestors because, as he put it, “no one wants to hear the story of…

Leslie StaintonMarch 9, 2023

Slavery & Its Legacies

History Comes ‘Round Midnight

In the beginning, the history wanted me more than I wanted the history. It came for me as a brown grandchild kept secret from her racist great grandmother, as nightmares…

Karen BrananSeptember 3, 2021

Linked Descendants

A Rainbow Family

A Rainbow Family It’s been 20 years since I found my first “linked descendants.” Coming to the Table was not yet born and I’d never heard that phrase. I didn’t…

Karen BrananMay 3, 2014