{"id":18904,"date":"2021-02-01T18:43:04","date_gmt":"2021-02-01T18:43:04","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/theoklahomaeagle.net\/?p=18904"},"modified":"2021-02-01T18:43:04","modified_gmt":"2021-02-01T18:43:04","slug":"john-hope-franklin-center-for-reconciliations-2021-national-symposium-commemorates-the-centennial-of-the-1921-race-massacre","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.willoughbyavenue.com\/eagle\/2021\/02\/01\/john-hope-franklin-center-for-reconciliations-2021-national-symposium-commemorates-the-centennial-of-the-1921-race-massacre\/","title":{"rendered":"John Hope Franklin Center For Reconciliation\u2019s 2021 National Symposium Commemorates The Centennial Of The 1921 Race Massacre"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.jhfnationalsymposium.org\/\">www.jhfnationalsymposium.org<\/a><br \/>\n&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The 12<sup>th<\/sup>\u00a0Annual Reconciliation in America National Symposium will be held from Wednesday, May 26<sup>th<\/sup>\u00a0to Saturday, May 29<sup>th<\/sup>.\u00a0 In recognition of the centennial of the 1921 Race Massacre, the theme for this year\u2019s symposium is \u201cThe Future of Tulsa\u2019s Past:\u00a0 The Centennial of the Tulsa Race Massacre and Beyond.\u201d Celebrated authors, activists, educators, and journalists will come together to discuss the story of the Tulsa Race Massacre and how we, as a community, can work toward the intentional journey of reconciliation.\u00a0 Due to constraints of COVID-19, attendees will have the option of attending this year\u2019s event virtually or in-person with limited seating capacity.<\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400;\">This year\u2019s symposium will feature 12 national presenters.\u00a0 Keynote speakers are Pulitzer Prize Journalist &#8211; Isabel Wilkerson, Educator and Author &#8211; Dr. Daina Ramey Berry, Philosopher and Activist \u2013 Dr. Cornell West, Historian and Journalist \u2013 Dr. Scott Ellsworth, National Park Service\u2019s Chief Historian &amp; Deputy Federal Preservation Officer \u2013 Dr. Turkiya Lowe, Pulitzer Prize Journalist \u2013 Eli Saslow, and Policy Analyst and Data Scientist \u2013 Samuel Sinyangwe.\u00a0 In addition to the Keynote speakers,\u00a0the YIVO Institute for Jewish Research and In geveb will present research on contemporaneous Yiddish language newspaper articles and other archival sources which reflect on the Tulsa race massacre.\u00a0Topics such as social justice, criminal justice, policing, the future of education, business, and philanthropy will be covered during the four days of the symposium.<\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The Symposium\u2019s Opening Session begins on Wednesday, May 26<sup>th<\/sup>\u00a0at 1:30 pm, with a tour of John Hope Franklin Reconciliation Park.\u00a0 This tour will be led by American Sculptor and Historian, Ed Dwight who is the creator of the Reconciliation Tower sculpture that is proudly displayed at the center of the park.\u00a0 On Friday, May 28<sup>th<\/sup>\u00a0at 6:00 pm, there will be a memorial held at the John Hope Franklin Reconciliation Park to pay tribute to the lives lost, the survivors, and descendants of the 1921 Race Massacre.\u00a0 To culminate the John Hope Franklin Symposium activities, a Greenwood Bus Tour will take place on Saturday, May 29<sup>th<\/sup>\u00a0at 10:30 am.\u00a0 The tour will include significant sites often identified within the 1921 Race Massacre.<\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400;\">For more event details and to register for the 2021 National Symposium, visit the John Hope Franklin National Symposium\u2019s website at\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.jhfnationalsymposium.org\/\">www.jhfnationalsymposium.org\/<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>www.jhfnationalsymposium.org &nbsp; The 12th\u00a0Annual Reconciliation in America National Symposium will be held from Wednesday, May 26th\u00a0to Saturday, May 29th.\u00a0 In recognition of the centennial of the 1921 Race Massacre, the theme for this year\u2019s symposium is \u201cThe Future of Tulsa\u2019s Past:\u00a0 The Centennial of the Tulsa Race Massacre and Beyond.\u201d Celebrated authors, activists, educators, and&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":18905,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[103,105,106],"tags":[],"thb-sponsors":[],"class_list":["post-18904","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-featured","category-national","category-tulsa"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.willoughbyavenue.com\/eagle\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18904","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.willoughbyavenue.com\/eagle\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.willoughbyavenue.com\/eagle\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.willoughbyavenue.com\/eagle\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.willoughbyavenue.com\/eagle\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=18904"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.willoughbyavenue.com\/eagle\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18904\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.willoughbyavenue.com\/eagle\/wp-json\/"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.willoughbyavenue.com\/eagle\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=18904"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.willoughbyavenue.com\/eagle\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=18904"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.willoughbyavenue.com\/eagle\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=18904"},{"taxonomy":"thb-sponsors","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.willoughbyavenue.com\/eagle\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/thb-sponsors?post=18904"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}