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IofC-USA Executive Director Don Cowles calls for an investment in the work of building trust in order to realize the full potential of the metropolitan Richmond region.
24 March 2008
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Can we create an environment that encourages and rewards innovation and risk? Four hundred and fifty Richmond leaders wrestled with this question at Metropolitan Richmond Day organized by Hope in the Cities on 8 Nov as they considered the future of the region’s schools.
20 November 2007
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The city of Liverpool hosted a series of events simultaneously in the last two weeks of August - the 800th Anniversary of it’s charter, Slavery Remembrance Day, the opening of its new International Slavery Museum and the 200th Anniversary of the Abolition of the Atlantic Slave Trade.
17 October 2007
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“Look at all that this nation has accomplished with one hand tied behind our backs. Imagine what would be possible if we engaged everyone and released the other hand!” exclaimed Judge Walter H. Rice, at the IofC national forum, Building Trust in America, in Dayton, Ohio, 15-16 June.
28 June 2007
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Initiatives of Change announces a national forum in Dayton, Ohio,Building Trust in America
25 April 2007
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Five thousand people celebrated the unveiling of a Reconciliation statue on March 30 at the site of Richmond’s former slave market. In this place of horror, where 300,000 kidnapped Africans and their descendants were torn from their families and “sold down the river” to Southern plantations, a symbol of healing gives hope for a new future.
05 April 2007
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Even with the best intentions the master/slave mentality between the West and Africa still persists and only by being honest about the past can a constructive and forward looking future be created, says Baroness Howells.
23 March 2007
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Representatives from Liverpool, UK, and West Africa will gather in Richmond, Virginia, on 30 March, for the unveiling of a reconciliation statue at the city’s former slave market.
15 March 2007
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State and city officials attended the groundbreaking at the site of a Reconciliation sculpture in Richmond, VA on December 13.
22 December 2006
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Healthy integrated public schools are essential for a thriving metropolitan region, civil rights scholar john powell told the six hundred community leaders at Richmond’s 10th Metropolitan Richmond Day on November 9.
12 November 2006
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