FILM: If you missed Lexington’s Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. CommUNITY Commemoration, or subsequent screeings, please join CommUNITY Committee and Grace Chapel (host) for another showing of the thought-provoking documentary about the Bristol, RI DeWolf family's slave-trading past. "Traces of the Trade: A Story from the Deep North” explores historical aspects of colonial and early US involvement with "triangle trade" as it also raises issues of modern society. What is slavery's impact on race relations today? What are the aspects of privilege, and how do we address these issues and discuss our respective thoughts in our local communities? How does slavery tie into the political and moral issues of our country's increasingly ethnic/cultural diversity today?
Then come back to Grace Chapel on March 17th when Dick Kollen and James DeWolf Perry speak about Lexington's own history and slave-trading past. See www.lexingtoncommunity.typepad.com for more information about the Traces Center and our spring schedule of events. CommUNITY's series has been co-sponsored by the Lexington Interfaith Clergy Association, Lexington Historical Society, The Greater Boston YWCA and Rep. Jay R. Kaufman.
