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Race and Reconciliation: A Community-wide Conversation on Race with Nontombi Naomi Tutu

by andersone

From November 13 through November 15, 2009, human rights activist Nontombi Naomi Tutu will facilitate a dialogue that takes many forms and crosses many events.

Nontombi Naomi Tutu is the King-Chavez-Parks Visiting Professor at the University of Michigan and Associate Director of the Office of International Programs at Tennessee State University, and founder of the Tutu Foundation which provides scholarships and support to South African refugees in African countries. She encourages us to "be willing to speak and hear the truth because then we will have our just society."

Friday, November 13, at 7:30pm, Ms. Tutu will share her well-considered thoughts and take questions from the audience at Rackham Auditorium, in the University of Michigan Rackham School of Graduate Studies, 915 E Washington St., in Ann Arbor. Her remarks will be preceded by a book-signing in the lobby.

Saturday, November 14, at 7:30pm, landmark documentary Long Night's Journey Into Day will be screened, followed by a panel discussion. The panel, including Ms. Tutu and local Fox 2 News personality Huel Perkins (moderator), will consider the ways in which this intimate film about post-apartheid South Africa and its attempts to heal itself with truth might enlighten Washtenaw County's efforts. The location is the Towsley Auditorium in the Morris Lawrence Building at Washtenaw Community College, 4800 E Huron Dr.

Sunday, November 15, Ms. Tutu will share commentary at the 10am service at First Congregational Church of Ann Arbor, 608 E William (corner of S State St), and The Our Own Thing Chorale, conducted by Dr. Willis Patterson, will perform.

Additional information can be found here.

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