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“The 3 Rs: The Road to Reparations and Reconciliation” virtual talk educates students to address reconciliation of racial issues Provided by BU Harriet Tubman Center Mary Frances Berry, an international civil rights activist, and Hilary Robertson-Hickling, a scholar of the Caribbean diaspora, spoke with students about reparations, truth and reconciliation.
BU s Harriet Tubman Center hosted Mary Frances Berry, Hilary Robertson-Hickling who spoke on restorative justice, colonialism
April 12, 2021
Mary Frances Berry, an international civil rights activist, and Hilary Robertson-Hickling, a scholar of the Caribbean diaspora, gave a virtual talk about reparations and reconciliation at Binghamton University via Zoom on Thursday.
The event, titled “The 3 Rs: The Road to Reparations and Reconciliation,” was hosted by the BU Harriet Tubman Center for the Study of Freedom and Equity as part of an ongoing conversation the University is having about truth and reconcilia
In July of 1993, Nelson Mandela visited Chicago three years after he was released from prison and one year before he was elected as South Africa’s first Black president.
“Mandela in Chicago,” the new documentary by Medill Prof. Ava Thompson Greenwell (Medill B.S. ’84, M.S. ’85, Weinberg Ph.D.’14), explores the monumental role Chicago activists played in the movement by putting pressure on the governments of South Africa, Illinois and Chicago to halt their support of South Africa’s oppressive systems. The film was broadcast on Feb. 18 and Feb. 21 on Chicago’s WTTW Channel 11.
“(Mandela) came to thank the people for all the work they had been doing, and I wanted Chicago to get some credit for that,” Greenwell said. “So much of history would have been lost had it not been for the film, so I’m hoping that the film itself will be a catalyst to really reignite interest in what happened in South Africa, but also what is still happening in South Africa.”
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Medill professor Ava Thompson Greenwell’s film about the historic 1993 visit airs on WTTW Channel 11
The film features archival footage and interviews with Chicago and South African activists.
A new documentary film by Northwestern Medill professor Ava Thompson Greenwell explores Nelson Mandela’s historic visit to Chicago and the factors and forces behind it.
The film will air on Chicago’s WTTW Channel 11 at 10:30 p.m. Thursday, Feb. 18, and 2:30 p.m. Sunday, Feb. 21. Or viewers can watch anytime at WTTW online.
“Mandela in Chicago” explores Mandela’s visit to Chicago in 1993, three years after he was freed from prison and one year prior to his election as South Africa’s first Black president.