Donna Bivens, Meghan Doran and Jacqui Lindsay had the honor of representing the Boston Busing/Desegregation Project November 3-5 at the seating of the first Metropolitan Detroit Truth & Reconciliation Commission on Racial Inequality. The Michigan Roundtable—the sponsoring organization —has been building toward a truth commission since 2008 through its examination of the past injustices that led to the current state of racial segregation in Metro Detroit.
The seating of the Commission commenced a fabulous conference called Race2Equity. The conference included international and local speakers who gave presentations on everything from the history of race and a place in Metro Detroit to explorations of truth processes around the world to how to write your own story.
Keynote speaker Naomi Tutu told us “Our story is our whole story. It all comes together leading to who we are today. That part that shames us and the part that makes us proud is our story. If we’re striving for justice and wholeness we must have the whole truth, the whole story. History can teach us if we listen to history.”
For those of us working on the Boston Busing/Desegregation Project it was inspiring and gave us new energy for our project for truth, learning and change. Over the next weeks we’ll be sharing some of the wonderful resources from the Conference on this blog.
Truth, Learning, and Change 