At its core, oral history is about listening to others, about setting ourselves aside to imagine someone else’s world, to see through someone else’s eyes. It’s not about appropriating others’ experiences or speaking for them or claiming their insights as our own. It’s about recognizing the respect and dignity and authority that is everyone’s due. This listening is important work, especially for those of us who have power and privilege that is systematically denied to others, that bestows on us a taken-for-granted right to speak. Anger and grief and injustice demand a hearing. If we don’t listen to a whispered…
Photos: Shifting images of peace, chaos in the Twin Cities
Pictures captured a mostly peaceful crowd marching in the early evening in downtown Minneapolis as looting continued in St. Paul’s Midway neighborhood. But after 9 p.m., fire and tear gas had found their way back to Minneapolis.
