It's a summer of reckoning, and as we look to the future, we ask ourselves how we got here in the first place. To that end, join us as we kick off our four-part event series "How Should Society Remember Their Sins?," with support from the Mellon Foundation. We begin with "What Is Our Responsibility for Our Government's Wars?" on July 12. Register now to be part of the conversation online, or in person in Los Angeles.
The Zócalo staff
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"How Should Societies Remember Their Sins?" is a two-year event and editorial series funded by the Mellon Foundation that explores the sins we have tried to remember, those we have tried to forget, and how individuals and institutions in the United States and around the world are finding new ways to honor victims of the past to build a more just society.
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Check out the essays and other upcoming events in the series here.
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Tuesday, July 12, 2022, 7:00 PM PDT
How Should Societies Remember Their Sins: A Zócalo Event Series, supported by the Mellon Foundation
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Moderated by William Sturkey, University of North Carolina Historian and Hattiesburg Author
Lieutenant General (ret.) Robert E. Schmidle, Jr., Air Force veteran and social worker Noël Lipana, and Farnaz Fassihi, United Nations bureau chief at the New York Times, visit Zócalo to discuss what it means to bear responsibility for war and its atrocities, and why that matters.
Register to receive updates for the series and join us in-person or live online.
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How Fractured Nations and Communities Reckon with History and Move Toward Repair
Can democracy stand the test of time? Many factors have triggered the deep schism in American politics today. But a root cause of our faltering democracy may be our failure to grapple with the truth about the nation’s history of discrimination and institutionalized racism. Because Americans can’t even agree on basic truths about our history of exclusion, slavery, and Jim Crow segregation, we have become mired in contentious debates about what role, if any, the government should play in addressing past injustices and their present-day legacies.
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How well do you know Zócalo events? Test your knowledge with a trivia question.
Q: During Zócalo’s 2020 online event, “How Have Women's Protests Changed History,” our panel recalled moments when women’s coalitions brought about significant change. The event honored the 100th anniversary of the passage of the 19th amendment to the Constitution. What did that amendment guarantee?
(Scroll down for the answer)
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Photographs from the Black Cat Tell the Tale of a Movement’s Muddled Origins—And Where It Might Go |
The round face of a cartoon cat—big eyes, earnest smile—still hangs off the front façade of the Black Cat in Silver Lake.
Today, it peers out from above the kind of gastropub where you can order a $16 cocktail, easily fitting in with this gentrifying part of Sunset Boulevard, once known as a working-class Latino neighborhood and gay enclave.
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Tuesday, June 28, 2022, 6:00 PM PDT
Thomas Mann House
Can more active political participation help restore trust in political institutions? Zócalo's very own Joe Mathews, political scientist Christine Landfried of the University of Hamburg, and sociologist James S. Fishkin of Stanford University will discuss citizens’ assemblies in the United States and Europe. Panel discussion moderated by Dawn Nakagawa, of the Berggruen Institute.
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A: It allowed women to vote, by assuring that the right to vote “shall not be denied or abridged by the United States or by any State on account of sex.”
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This series is supported by The Mellon Foundation |
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Thanks to our media sponsor |
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