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NC Civil Rights Trail sign that says "Watts Grill: Black and white students & professors subjected to violence and arrests during sit-ins in 1964. Last local restaurant to integrate. NC African American Heritage Commission William C Pomery Foundation 2023"

1964 Sit-Ins at Watts Grill

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On September 23, 2023, a new North Carolina Civil Rights Trail marker was placed outside Holy Trinity Anglican Church in Chapel Hill, NC. The marker commemorates the 1964 Watts Grill sit-ins, which took place at Watts Restaurant and Motel on the stretch of highway where the church now stands. Calvin history alum William Snoeyink ('18) researched and wrote a short history of the events for his church website. The post below contains an excerpt from his work. Read the full story on the Holy Trinity Anglican Church website.

Immigration Debates in America (video)

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Talk by Will Katerberg https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lB1j09GNSWY "Immigration Debates in America" (Talk by Prof. William Katerberg, Calvin University, February 21, 2022) Calvin Academy for Lifelong Learning (CALL) Lecture American immigration policies have changed significantly over the past 200 years, but debates over more restrictive versus more open policies have recurring themes. Should the U.S. restrict immigration to …

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Kristin Kobes Du Mez on political conflict in west Michigan churches (video)

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Calvin historian Kristin Kobes Du Mez, author of New York Times best seller Jesus and John Wayne: How White Evangelicals Corrupted a Faith and Fractured a Nation appeared on local news channel WOOD TV8 alongside Michael Gulker, president of the Colossian Forum for a Q&A and reaction to WOOD's Target 8 feature: "Under God, Divisible: Political conflict deepens rift among Christians." Professor Du Mez is also interviewed for the feature article.

The Good Soldier: The Tragedy of Colin Powell

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Jim Bratt This post originally appeared in The Twelve: Reformed Done Daily on November 8, 2021. Colin Powell at a meeting of the national security council at the White House on the day following the 9/11 attacks in 2001 with, from left, Donald Rumsfeld, President George W Bush and Dick Cheney. Photograph: Doug Mills/AP Colin Powell …

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Afghanistan: A 9/11 Postmortem

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Jim Bratt This post originally appeared in The Twelve: Reformed Done Daily on September 13, 2021. Labor Day was always a melancholy holiday for me as a kid. You know the tune: last day of summer, days getting shorter, return to school, parents getting their work-face on. It was extra painful for me because September …

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I Rise to Speak in Favor of the Discipline I Taught

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by Bob Schoone-Jongen In the wake of President Trump’s embrace of “patriotic history” at the National Archives on Thursday, I rise to speak in favor of the discipline I taught, studied, researched, and wrote about for decades. I also rise to oppose categorically the debauched definition of history he espoused in that hallowed national space …

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