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Zvobgo on Racism and Truth Commissions

Kelebogile Zvobgo, a pre-doctoral fellow at the Global Research Institute and soon-to-be Government faculty member, has penned a recent timely article in the Washington Post's Monkey Cage Blog.  Zvobgo and her co-author draw on their research about truth commissions around the world to analyze recent proposals for using similar commissions in the United States to address the nation's history of slavery, racism, and racial discrimination. In the article they address how these truth commissions work. You can read more here: https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2020/06/09/some-lawmakers-are-calling-truth-commissions-racial-violence-how-do-these-work/