Image of a person giving a presentation with labor acknowledgement on the screen. Screenshot reads:
Labor Acknowledgment
"We must acknowledge that much of what we know of this country today, including its culture, economic growth, and development throughout history and across time, has been made possible by the labor of enslaved Africans and their ascendants who suffered the horror of the transatlantic trafficking of their people, chattel slavery, and Jim Crow. We are indebted to their labor and their sacrifice, and we must acknowledge the tremors of that violence throughout the generations and the resulting impact that can still be felt and
• Dr. Terah "TJ" Stewart
witnessed today."
On Labor Acknowledgements and Honoring the Sacrifice of Black Americans
TJ, I don't know if you remember me from OSU, but I hope you are doing well. I live out in Seattle now and was at a community meeting this morning and saw your name up on someone's presentation — thought I'd share!
In fact I just got this message from a former students a few days ago.