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Truth and Reconciliation

The South African Truth and Reconciliation Commission was a court-like body that allowed victims of violence to seek justice. Gillian Slovo explains her affiliation with this organization and how it spurred her recent book, Red Dust.
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Jane Taylor is a South African who has engaged with the work of William Kentridge ... In 1987 his graphics were included in From South Africa, (U of Chicago ...
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Truth and Reconciliation

The South African Truth and Reconciliation Commission was a court-like body that allowed victims of violence to seek justice. Gillian Slovo explains her affiliation with this organization and how it spurred her recent book, Red Dust.
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Novelist Gillian Slovo was born in 1952 in South Africa, the daughter of Joe Slovo, leader of the South African Communist party, and Ruth First, ...
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Lecture

Truth and Reconciliation

The South African Truth and Reconciliation Commission was a court-like body that allowed victims of violence to seek justice. Gillian Slovo explains her affiliation with this organization and how it spurred her recent book, Red Dust.
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The Late Great Michael Reese The Wider Context of a Lost Local Treasure

Join Alan Kraut, professor  of history at American University and the leading historian of immigration and medicine, Dr. Marc Slutsky, a former Reese doctor, and historian  and curator Rhoda Rosen as they place Michael Reese in the larger context of ethnic / religious hospitals in America.

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Raised and schooled in South Africa, Rhoda Rosen came to the U.S. as a Rockefeller Institute Residency Fellow to the Institute for Advanced Research and ...
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... universities and high schools around the country, and stirred audiences at festivals and concerts from Germany to South Africa to Anchorage, Alaska. ...
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The Medea Project

Blending social activism and theater, Rhodessa Jones and her theater company Cultural Odyssey founded the acclaimed Medea Project: Theater for Incarcerated Women to learn whether an arts-based approach could help reduce female recidivism. Jones talks about 25 years of working with women in the California prison system and of her recent outreach to female prisoners in South Africa.

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Performance

Dance and Social Justice

Ananya Chatterjea draws on the dance and aesthetic traditions of eastern India and the tactics of street theater to forge a connection between dance and social issues.

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