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Voices of Trinity: Faculty Speak on Black Lives Matter

- Dr. Monroe reminded us of this truth: as Fannie Lou Hamer said, ‘Nobody’s free until everybody’s free."
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The Weight of These Robes: Cap and Gown Address

- The Cap and Gown celebration is a moment of triumph for our seniors, but the weight of these robes is the obligation of our Trinity education to exercise leadership for good.
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Mob Rule and the Tree of Life

- In our grief over yet more tragedy, we must insist that our leaders stop the hateful rhetoric and confront the violence that courses through the dark corners of American life.
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Don’t Know Much About History

- We should teach the truth about American history so that we do not repeat the terrible mistakes of our past. Any compromise on racism repeats the original mistake of the Founders who could have --- but did not --- abolish slavery.
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Leadership Imperatives

- True leadership is a moral act to restore hope, ensure justice, achieve peace. Leaders cannot equivocate in the face of clear hatred, provocation and violence. We must be clear and firm: there is no place in American society for those who seek to foment racial hatred.
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Charlottesville: American Tragedy Redux

- Racism, white supremacy, sporting of Nazi symbols --- we must confront the hatred and insist that our national leaders speak and act unequivocally to renounce association with the evil forces that have long plagued American history.
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