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	<title>The Living Consequences &#187; Remedies</title>
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		<title>President Obama re-nominates Goodwin Liu to 9th Circuit</title>
		<link>http://living.jdewperry.com/2010/09/president-obama-re-nominates-goodwin-liu-to-9th-circuit/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 14 Sep 2010 14:56:11 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>James</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The White House announced late yesterday that President Obama has re-nominated Berkeley law professor Goodwin Liu to the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit. Professor Liu&#8217;s nomination became controversial when it was discovered that he had addressed the subject of reparations for slavery on a panel following a special screening of our documentary, [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Goodwin Liu nomination sent back to White House</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 07 Aug 2010 14:18:04 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>James</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[President Obama&#8217;s nomination of controversial law professor Goodwin Liu to the U.S. Court of Appeals for the 9th Circuit has been blocked by Senate Republicans and returned to the White House. Professor Liu became the subject of controversy in late March, in part due to remarks he made on a panel convened to discuss our [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Reparations and African complicity in the slave trade</title>
		<link>http://living.jdewperry.com/2010/04/reparations-and-african-complicity-in-the-slave-trade/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 23 Apr 2010 16:37:51 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>James</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Professor Henry Louis (&#8220;Skip&#8221;) Gates, Jr. has an op-ed in this morning&#8217;s New York Times in which he takes on the issue of reparations for slavery. Gates will, no doubt, attract enough controversy for his general approach to the issue. He is convinced that our society must address the issue of reparations, and that we [...]]]></description>
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		<title>R.I. to vote on changing state&#8217;s name</title>
		<link>http://living.jdewperry.com/2009/10/r-i-to-vote-on-changing-states-name/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 29 Oct 2009 12:08:12 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>James</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Remedies]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[Providence Plantations]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[I&#8217;ve written before about the movement in Rhode Island to remove the words &#8220;Providence Plantations&#8221; from the state&#8217;s name. Supporters argue that these words constitute an offensive reminder of the state&#8217;s, and the nation&#8217;s, history of slavery. Last night, the R.I. state legislature approved the constitutional amendment which would change the state&#8217;s name. The measure [...]]]></description>
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		<title>U.S. Senate apologizes to Native Americans</title>
		<link>http://living.jdewperry.com/2009/10/u-s-senate-apologizes-to-native-americans/</link>
		<comments>http://living.jdewperry.com/2009/10/u-s-senate-apologizes-to-native-americans/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 08 Oct 2009 21:44:54 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>James</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The U.S. Senate has approved a measure which would apologize to Native Americans, on behalf of the people of the United States, for a history of official misdeeds by the federal government and &#8220;many instances of violence, maltreatment, and neglect&#8221;by U.S. citizens. The apology takes the form of an amendment to the 2010 defense appropriations [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Hearing held on Massachusetts slavery-era disclosure law</title>
		<link>http://living.jdewperry.com/2009/10/hearing-held-on-massachusetts-slavery-era-disclosure-law/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 06 Oct 2009 19:22:23 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>James</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[As I previewed last month, the Massachusetts state legislature held a hearing yesterday on state representative Byron Rushing&#8217;s proposed slavery-era disclosure law. Update: Governor Deval Patrick has commented that while he hasn&#8217;t read the bill, he agrees that &#8220;we have some unfinished work about some injustices that goes back generations.&#8221; H 3148 would make Massachusetts [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Hearing set for Massachusetts slavery-era disclosure law</title>
		<link>http://living.jdewperry.com/2009/09/hearing-set-for-massachusetts-slavery-era-disclosure-law/</link>
		<comments>http://living.jdewperry.com/2009/09/hearing-set-for-massachusetts-slavery-era-disclosure-law/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 15 Sep 2009 19:57:44 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>James</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Earlier this year, I wrote about Massachusetts State Representative Byron Rushing&#8217;s proposed slavery-era disclosure law. At that time, I indicated that Joint Committee on Tourism, Arts &#38; Cultural Development should hold a public hearing later in the year. The committee has now scheduled a public hearing for Monday, October 5 at 1:00pm at which testimony [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Senator Edward M. Kennedy, 1932-2009</title>
		<link>http://living.jdewperry.com/2009/08/senator-edward-m-kennedy-1932-2009/</link>
		<comments>http://living.jdewperry.com/2009/08/senator-edward-m-kennedy-1932-2009/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 26 Aug 2009 12:20:42 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>James</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[It was announced overnight that Senator Edward M. Kennedy of Massachusetts has died at the age of 77. Much has been said about the legacy of Senator Kennedy, the &#8220;liberal lion of the Senate,&#8221; and much more will be said today and in the the future. As President Obama said in a statement released during [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Katrina Browne on slavery apology at CNN.com</title>
		<link>http://living.jdewperry.com/2009/08/katrina-browne-on-slavery-apology-at-cnn-com/</link>
		<comments>http://living.jdewperry.com/2009/08/katrina-browne-on-slavery-apology-at-cnn-com/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 19 Aug 2009 17:41:32 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>James</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[My cousin Katrina Browne has a commentary up this afternoon at CNN.com, entitled &#8220;Slavery needs more than an apology.&#8221; Katrina is the director and producer of the Emmy-nominated PBS documentary Traces of the Trade: A Story from the Deep North. The film explores the history and legacy of our ancestors, who were the most successful [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Katrina Browne interviewed on NPR</title>
		<link>http://living.jdewperry.com/2009/06/katrina-browne-interviewed-on-npr/</link>
		<comments>http://living.jdewperry.com/2009/06/katrina-browne-interviewed-on-npr/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 24 Jun 2009 16:04:50 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>James</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Katrina Browne is interviewed today on NPR&#8217;s &#8220;Tell Me More&#8221; about the recent passage of a Senate apology for slavery. The interview, conducted by Michel Martin, can be heard online here. Katrina, as a descendant of the nation&#8217;s leading slave-traders and the director of a documentary about the slave trade, was interviewed with Daniel Smith, [...]]]></description>
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