Thursday morning on Goddard College Community Radio: A view of racial justice issues from a 1960s Black activist at Cornell who went on to hold top posts in Wall Street.

9:00 - 10:00 am
Community resilience depends on people of all races, ethnicities, and other backgrounds being treated with respect. For insight into what's changed in the U.S. in race relations in the last 60+ years, Thomas W. Jones joins us for the full first hour of the program. His memoir, From Willard Straight to Wall Street, describes his part in the 1969 occupation of Cornell University's student center, Willard Straight Hall, by members of the Cornell University Afro-American Society, to protest what they believed was Cornell's institutional racism, its biased judicial system, and its slow progress in establishing a Black Studies program. Jones went on to Wall Street, where he held high-level positions at John Hancock, TIAA-CREF and Citigroup.

During the trial of Derek Chauvin for killing George Floyd, and when news of police harassment and killing of blacks like Lt. Caron Nazario in Virginia and Duante Wright in Minnesota, Jones has some surprisingly upbeat things to say about progress in race relations in the U.S.
https://www.cornellpress.cornell.edu/book/9781501736322/from-willard-straight-to-wall-street[...]s=1

10:00 - 10:30 am
Resilience Thoughts, a locally told Extempo story on violence at a 1980s divestment demonstration at Cornell, and more.

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