Leonard Lopate at Large on WBAI Radio in New York

Kerri Greenidge on The Grimkes


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Join us when Kerri Greenidge a Mellon Assistant Professor in the Department of Studies in Race, Colonialism, and Diaspora at Tufts University shares a stunning counternarrative of the legendary abolitionist Grimke sisters that finally reclaims the forgotten Black members of their family. A landmark biography of the most important multiracial American family of the nineteenth century, The Grimkes suggests that just as the Hemingses and Jeffersons personified the racial myths of the founding generation, the Grimkes embodied the legacy—both traumatic and generative—of those myths, which reverberate to this day.
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Leonard Lopate at Large on WBAI Radio in New YorkBy Leonard Lopate at Large on WBAI Radio in New York

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