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Widen the Circle

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A Conversation with Michael Corey Fascinating Data: How Historic Racism Affects Our World Today Please join us on Tuesday, December 8 at 1 p.m. ET (19:00 in Germany) for a conversation with Widen the Circle Berlin Fellowship member Michael Corey.&nbsp; As a public historian, experienced journalist, and data analyst, Michael believes in facts. He works at the intersection of preserving history and using data to demonstrate the lasting effects of oppression and structural racism. He has worked on issues such as zoning and segregation, mortgage disparities, and the effects of the U.S.-Mexico border fence system.&nbsp; As associate director of Mapping Prejudice at the University of Minnesota, Michael uses historical property records to demonstrate past and current racial housing discrimination in the Midwest. For example, so-called racial covenants were clauses that were inserted into property deeds to prevent people of color and, often, Jews from buying and occupying land. Data shows that these covenants from the first half of the 20th century contribute to the racial wealth gap today.&nbsp; Michael also works with Save Our Signs, a project to document interpretive signs being removed or altered at National Parks and historical sites.&nbsp; The signs being censored deal with the history of slavery, indigenous peoples, and climate change. Among the topics they cover: slave ownership by George Washington and Thomas Jefferson; the fact that Independence Hall in Philadelphia, where the U.S. Constitution was signed, also held trials of enslaved people who had escaped; and the ways climate change endangers individual National Parks. &nbsp;Michael will also talk about how Widen the Circle&rsquo;s immersive Berlin Fellowship for remembrance activists has affected and enhanced his work. Please join us on Tuesday, December 8 from 1 to 2 p.m. ET. This is sure to be an interesting discussion on a topic that doesn&rsquo;t get enough exposure.&nbsp;

A Conversation with Michael Corey Fascinating Data: How Historic Racism Affects Our World Today Please join us on Tuesday, December 8 at 1 p.m. ET (19:00 in Germany) for a conversation with Widen the Circle Berlin Fellowship member Michael Corey.  As a public historian, experienced journalist, and data analyst, Michael believes in facts. He works at the intersection of preserving history and using data to demonstrate the lasting effects of oppression and structural racism. He has worked on issues such as zoning and segregation, mortgage disparities, and the effects of the U.S.-Mexico border fence system.  As associate director of Mapping Prejudice at the University of Minnesota, Michael uses historical property records to demonstrate past and current racial housing discrimination in the Midwest. For example, so-called racial covenants were clauses that were inserted into property deeds to prevent people of color and, often, Jews from buying and occupying land. Data shows that these covenants from the first half of the 20th century contribute to the racial wealth gap today.  Michael also works with Save Our Signs, a project to document interpretive signs being removed or altered at National Parks and historical sites.  The signs being censored deal with the history of slavery, indigenous peoples, and climate change. Among the topics they cover: slave ownership by George Washington and Thomas Jefferson; the fact that Independence Hall in Philadelphia, where the U.S. Constitution was signed, also held trials of enslaved people who had escaped; and the ways climate change endangers individual National Parks.  Michael will also talk about how Widen the Circle’s immersive Berlin Fellowship for remembrance activists has affected and enhanced his work. Please join us on Tuesday, December 8 from 1 to 2 p.m. ET. This is sure to be an interesting discussion on a topic that doesn’t get enough exposure.

Widen the Circle

A Conversation with Michael Corey, Fascinating Data: How Historic Racism Affects Our World Today

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