Belvie Rooks
Belvie Rooks is a writer, educator, and television producer whose work weaves together the worlds of spirituality, ecology, and social and environmental justice. She was a writer and producer of the inspirational TV show Courage and currently serves on the board of IONS. Belvie has a masters degree in Interdisciplinary Studies in Education.
Presentations by Belvie Rooks:
(S7) Inheriting the Trade: Hard Truths about the Legacy of Slavery—Belvie Rooks and Thomas Norman DeWolf / Introduction by IONS Member Council cofounder, Jane Hughes Gignoux.
Belvie Rooks is an African American woman whose family story of enslavement is chronicled in The Seeds of Sally Good'n: A Black Family in Arkansas, 1833 - 1953. Thomas DeWolf, a white male descendant of the most successful slave-trading family in U.S. history, retraces his ancestors' steps through the notorious Triangle Trade in his memoir Inheriting the Trade. You're invited to join them in a deeper conversation about race. Explore the hidden slave history of the North and how the traumas of that era still reverberate today. Join the urgent call for honest and opened-hearted dialogue in a nation ready for healing.
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