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APRIL 2005

Concert to Showcase KY
Debut of Hoffman Work

CKJF Sponsors Spring
Musical Event

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By Mary Engel

When cellist Benjamin Karp sits
down to play ”Self-Portrait With
Gebirtig" with the Lexington
Community Orchestra on April 10, it
won’t be his first public performance
of the piece. But it will be the Central
Kentucky debut of the work, written
by Joel Hoffman, a University of
Cincinnati College-Conservatory of
Music professor and a friend of
Karp. Karp was part of the

orchestra when "Gebirtig' made its

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This time, Karp will be the

featured soloist. ”I’ve wanted to

do it ever since” that first time,
said Karp, a professor of cello
and director of chamber music at the
University of Kentucky. He is also
principal cellist of the Cincinnati
Chamber Orchestra.

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According to Karp, Hoffman’s
inspiration for “Self-Portrait With
Gebirtig” was Mordechai Gebirtig, a
Yiddish folk poet and composer. A
carpenter by trade, Gebirtig had no
formal music education, yet he has
been called one of the most
influential and popular writers of
Yiddish songs and poems. He was
born in Poland in 1877 and died
there in 1942, killed by Nazis while
living in exile in the Krakow ghetto.

Although he did not
survive the
Holocaust, his
notebook, filled with

poems written during that time, did.
The works were set to music and
recorded as ”The Krakow Ghetto
Notebook” in 1993 at the US.
Holocaust Museum.

Like Gebirtig’s music, “Self-Portrait"
is rooted in the Jewish instrumental
music known as klezmer. It ”has a lot
of non-traditional rhythm, sort of
folk styles that are not common. It’s
stylistically different from classical
music," said Karp, who referred to it
as a “klezmer fantasy.”

see Ben Karp, page 3

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Not Your Father’s Passover:

Recovering Old Meanings in
New Understanding of the Exodus

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By Stanley Ned Rosenbaum

A couple of years ago a prominent San Francisco rabbi got into a lot of trouble
for suggesting that the exodus from Egypt, the foundation for Passover, didn't
happen. The outcry of Jews and Christians was so, great that he had to more-
or-less take it back. In fact, the exodus didn't happen the way the Bible tells it.
But to borrow a title from Ken Kesey, "Something Happened," and the
historical truth behind the Book of Exodus is, if anything, more exciting than
the Bible's account of it.

nineteenth century, we can propose a
pretty plausible conjecture of what,
in fact, did happen.

Understand this: all religious
traditions are almost congenitally
myopic and the passage of centuries
during which their foundational
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Yom HaShoah, Yom Ha’Atzmaut
Two Signiﬁcant Days In
Modern Jewish History

Holocaust Remembrance Day and Israel
Independence Day to be Celebrated in May

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By Pat Shraberg

may hear of someone characterizing
a particularly horrible event as a
holocaust, but the term originally
referred to the immolation of
religious sacrifices such as the
burning of offerings in the Great
Temple. It was popularized by Elie

May 6 (Nissan 27), Yom HaShoah
and May12 (Iyar 5), Yom
Ha’Atzmaut are two very special
days that have a remarkable
connection. If you find this hard to
believe, please read on.

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Remembrance Day is truly a somber
occasion. Shoah is the Hebrew word
for "catastrophe," and it refers to the
Jewish Holocaust in World War II.
(The term "Holocaust" is subject to
misuse in the vernacular. The term
does not apply to every evil that
exists in the world. Occasionally you

Weisel—who was awarded the Nobel
Peace Prize for his work teaching all
people about the lessons of the
Shoah—as referring to the mass
slaughter of European Jews during
WW II.) The date for the
commemoration was picked up to
coincide with the anniversary of the
Warsaw Ghetto uprising, so it is also

see Yom, page 17

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Benjamin Karp, to Be Featured at Concert ................ 3

Gloria Rie to Receive Lauren Weinberg Humanitarian Award . . .4

President's Message , . ,V ............................. 4
Know Your Board . . .............................. 5
Barney Miller’s a Lexington Tradition Since 1922 .............. 5
From the Executive Director .......................... 6
Room for Everyone at Camp Shalom 2005 ............... 6
Series on Slavery Reparations Debate Continues ........... 7
Book Review: Saga Touches Close to Home ............... 7
Rabbi‘s Corner .................................... 8
, J Celebrate 350: Gathering Clouds ...................... 9
CKJF_to Sponsor Spring Concert ....................... 9
American Football Scores a Touchdown in Israel ........... 10

Some Thoughts Gleaned from the 2005 Session of the JCPA .12

Tikkun Lexington Update ........................... 13

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CKJF President:
David Feinberg

Executive Committee:

Michael Grossman, Vice President
Phillip Berger, 2nd Vice President
Ginger Knight, Treasurer

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CKJF Board:

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Odette Kaplan Carole Wilson

Ben Karp (from page 1)

The composition opens mournfully, then is alternately
reﬂective, somber and dancelike. ”It’s a great deal of fun,”
Karp said of the piece, which has been played in New
York, Paris, Tel Aviv, Washington and Baltimore and
recorded by the Berlin Radio Symphony.

”Self-Portrait With Gebirtig” fits right in with the
concert’s theme, which is Jewish heroes. The concert also
will feature Leonard Bernstein’s Symphony No. 1
(“Jeremiah"), and music from two movies—Exodus and
The Prince of Egypt. Symphony No. 1 includes three
passages from Lamentations that will be sung by soprano
Joyce Hall-Wolf.

The Lexington Community Orchestra was formed about
15 years ago by a UK doctoral student who wanted
conducting experience, said Jonathan Roller, who has
been the conductor for thirteen years. Today the orchestra
has about 60 members who range in age from nineteen to
80. A few are musicians by profession, but most are

Super Sunday Establishes Connections

Barbara Barr and Paula Leichtman getting ready to make phone calls.

musicians by avocation. Their occupations run the gamut,
from lawyers to farmers, homemakers and teachers, but
not necessarily teachers of music.

By Daniel Chejfec

that alone makes it worthwhile. Unfortunately, the ‘
shortage of volunteers does not allow us to make this

This is the third time that CKJF has underwritten a
Jewish—themed concert by the orchestra, said Roller, who
teaches part-time at Asbury College and has taught at
UK. ”We could keep doing this concert for years because
there are so many great Jewish composers.”

The concert, sponsored by the Central Kentucky Jewish
Federation, will be on Sunday, April 10, at 3:00 p.m. in the
Recital Hall of the Singletary Center for Arts. Admission
is free, and a reception will follow. (I

On February 27, volunteers came

effort more often, but on Super SUnday we do.

together to perform our annual rite
of reaching out to the community.
The program, while designed to raise
funds for the CKJF/ UJC community
campaign, is not only about money.
It is about contacting our Jewish
neighbors and establishing a
connection. Over the years, we have
identified more than one situation in
which intervention by our Jewish
Family Services was warranted—and

We received contributions from 152 households, totaling
$11,600 or an eighteen percent increase over what the
same donors gave last year. It is important to notice that
21 households that contributed in 2005 did not contribute
in 2004. This brings the total for the 2005 CKJF/ UJC
community campaign so far to $21,500. These
contributions allow us as a community to provide much-
needed services here at home and around the Jewish
world, including Israel. In 2004, 35 percent of our budget

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concerts on tour conﬁne * ’ ’
recently appearing as soloist with
the Tianjin Symphony Orchestra
in China. in 2003 Mr. Karp taught
and performed at the Espirito
Santo Conservatory in Vitoria,
Brazil, and was soloist with the
Espirito Santo Philharmonic. Now
in his fourteenth year as professor
of cello and director of chamber
music at the University of
Kentucky School of Music,
Benjamin Karp received the MM
degree from Indiana University,
where he was a student of Janos
Starker and Gary Hoffman, and a
BA in Philosophy from Yale
University. Growing up in Atlanta,
Benjamin was the first student of
noted pedagogue Martha
Gerchesfski.

Mr. Karp is principal cellist of the
Cincinnati Chamber Orchestra,
and frequently joins the cello
section of the Cincinnati
Symphony for concerts, tours, and
recordings. He has played in

tor a two week tour of Japan Mr
Karp is a member of the Leonora
String Quartet, which in 2001
appeared in Florence, ttaly playing
in the Galleria Accademtca.

An enthusiastic advocate of recent
music, Mr. Karp has recorded a
CD of chamber music by noted
American composer Joel Hoffman
released by Gaspard Records.
Next month he will be performing
Mr. Hoffman’s Self Portrait with
Gebirtig for cello and orchestra.

Benjamin Karp is a widely known
chamber musician, appearing at
festivals throughout the United
States. Before coming to the
University of Kentucky Mr. Karp
was for six years cellist of the New
Cottage String Quartet and
principal cellist of the Florida West
Coast Symphony. He has recorded
for the Telarc, Gasparo, Arabesque,
CRl, and Centaur labels.

see Super Sunday, page 11

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President's Message

Come Together
Right Now

#90

As I was driving home from the
office, listening to the radio, John
Lennon’s ”Ode to Togetherness"
began to play. The catchy Beatles’
song from 1969 triggered some
thoughts ﬂoating in my subconscious
that have coalesced into something I
wanted to share in this column. It is
about competition. By nature, I am
more than a little competitive, but
I’ve gotten less so as I get older. One
area in which I am not competitive is
that of credit. No, not that type of
credit-——the kind of credit that we
think we earn from putting out a new
program, a new initiative, or a new
and improved anything else.

Whether it is the Temple, the
Synagogue, the Havurah, Hadassah,
Hillel, or the Federation who
develops something new for the
Jewish community I rejoice equally. I
do not care whose idea it was. I do
not care which organization takes
"credit" for a project. I do not care if
the Federation is the lead

. LeiSure Club
Luncheon and Storytelling

David Feinberg

organization or a support for some
other group’s program. Maybe I am
naive. If so, let me remain so.

The rivalries that sometimes occur
seem a little silly to me. The Jewish
community, as we all know, is very
small in the context of the
surrounding community. What
business do we have competing with
each other when the important point
is that something takes place that
benefits the entire Jewish
community? Regardless of the
genesis of the idea or program, we as
Central Kentucky Jews and as
American Jews all are better off for it.

As long as our community programs,
in aggregate, serve our needs and the
needs of Israel, how much difference
does it make who takes credit for it?
Let us all participate, all be creative,
and all of us take pride and "credit" for
what we communally have developed.
If one organization has a smashing
success, we all are better for it.

A few weeks ago, I attended the

Hadassah Auction fundraiser held at
the Temple. The co—auctioneers were
Rabbi Kline and Rabbi Cohen. There

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were plenty of people there from all
the organizations who were also
members or at least boosters of
Hadassah. The auction items were
high quality, the food was terrific,
and people had fun. The gentle
competition to buy items was
sweetened by the kibitzing of the
rabbis. Informal and friendly, the
event was welcoming to all.

In addition to being a very
entertaining evening (the rabbis were
amazing), it Was yet another example
of one organization’s success
promoting all our values and needs.
The night’s entertainment was
enthusiastically delivered by stand—
up comedian Steve Kesten. (Thank
you Steve; you might not want to
give up your day job quite yet.) I love
to see us going to each other's events.
It is good for us individually and it is
exactly what I think we should be
doing for our community.

In light of the above polemic, I would
like to point out that the Federation
and the entire community is involved
in the Newspapers for Education
program. The program is sponsored
by the Herald-Leader newspaper; and

financially backed by Columbia Gas
and the Jewish community. This
particular edition of the newspaper is
to introduce to the children in the
Central Kentucky region the events
surrounding the Holocaust.

We are committed to raising $5,000
for this effort. Already, we have
raised approximately half that
amount. We need your help to fulﬁll
our commitment. I am positive we
can cover the costs for this vital
educational initiative. In addition, I
do not want to read that the Sons of
Knute (I also listen to Garrison
Keillor's Prairie Home Companion) had
paid our share to sponsor an
educational program about the
Holocaust. This is our history and
our story. Please send your checks to
the Federation with a notation on the
memo line that this is for the
Newspapers in Education program.
Thank you in advance for your
generous donation. 1:!

Gloria Rie to Receive
Lauren Weinberg
Humanitarian Award

By Ned Rosenbaum

Gloria Rie has had her share of
personal tragedy but it has not
prevented her from taking an active
role in public service. Before coming
to Lexington, she was director of
patient advocacy at New York
University Medical Center. Since she
came to Lexington in 1991, she has
continued her public service
pursuits. She was associate vice
president of volunteers and
community education at Hospice of
the Bluegrass for three years. She's
served on many boards and is
currently chair of the Lexington
Human Rights Commission.

In 1995 Gloria founded the
Humanitarium: Center for Culture &
Diversity and, in 1999 with Rachel
Belin, introduced into our schools a
new curriculum: Facing History and
Ourselves, an examination of racism,
prejudice, and anti-Semitism which

studies the lessons of the Holocaust
and other examples of genocide.
Students thus can make the essential
connection between history and the
moral choices they make in their
own lives.

Gloria has two grown daughters:
Stephanie lives in the New York area
and works for the NBA. Bonnie lives
in Glendale, CA and is a landscape
architect. Each daughter has a daughter
of her own. Gloria herself has lived
in the area for twelve years with
husband Michael, a critical care
intensivist/bioethicist at UK Medical
Center.

This year Gloria will be one of three
recipients of the Kentucky Council of
Community 8: Justice’s Lauren
Weinberg Humanitarian Award. The
dinner will be at the Marriott from
5:30 to 9:00 pm. on April 12. (Call
the KCCJ at (859) 255-6999 for
tickets). It!

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Know Your Board

Stanley Ned Rosenbaum

Stanley Isenstein, president of
Interplex Plastics, has been a
Lexington resident for 28 years and
lived in a whole lot of other places
before. Most notably, the New
Hampshire native—an ardent
Zionist—lived in Israel for a year
just after the creation of the State.

He married a non-Jewish woman,
now deceased, because, he says, she
was the only girl who wanted to go
to Israel with him. When he
mentioned Israel to the fathers of the
Jewish girls he dated, they ”threw
me out of the house.” In the event,
they did not get to Israel until many
years later, but Mrs. Isenstein
converted to Judaism and was an
active member of Adath Israel for
many years.

Stanley served in the US Army
during the Korean War but did not
see combat. He has four grown
children, two in this area, one in
Connecticut, and one in Wisconsin.

Steve Kesten has been married to
the former Nancy White of
Lexington almost 41 years.

They have three children (Robert,
Sara, Daniel), all grown and married,
three grandchildren, and a fourth on
the way.

The Kestens moved to Lexington in
1968. Steve is self—employed with
Kesten Properties in real estate
brokerage, ownership, and
management. He has been a member
of Temple Adath Israel since 1968;
both sons became B'nai Mitzvah
there, and grandson Ethan attends
TAI Preschool. Steve served on the
Temple board for eight years, four
as chair of the budget and finance
committee. He was twice elected
president of local B'Nai B'rith
Lodge 289.

Steve has been active on the CKJF
Board for four years, and a
fundraiser for over 25 years. He has
visited Israel on a Federation trip,
and hopes to return again someday.
Steve says the biggest problem facing
CKJF is ”getting more people under
40 years of age committed to this
excellent charity,which helps Jews all
over the world.” 3

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By Connie Jo Miller

In June of 1922, Bernard Miller opened the doors of his
shop on East Main. “Barney,” an MIT graduate and
Rhode Island resident, met Bettie Abraham at a ball in
Providence. Once they were married, Bettie—who was a
native of Shelbyville—preferred the couple reside at her
“old Kentucky home.” So they moved to nearby
Lexington and Barney Miller’s got its start as an auto
accessory shop, something very innovative for the 1920s.
Automobiles then came without accessories (and we’re
not talking about the six-disc CD player). Cars had to be

themselves on making what could be
quite complicated very easy (gone
are the days of too many remote
controls). It’s all about personal
service and part of the
accommodating, friendly, family
atmosphere customers expect at
Barney Miller’s. Walking into Barney
Miller’s, you may be greeted by Jo
Ann Miller, Barney’s mother, who is
happy to show you around or offer
you a piece of candy.

outfitted with the basics, lights, wipers, running boards,

and rear —view mirrors. Barney always kept up with
technological advances, so when the electric radio hit the
market he was among the first to bring radios and
phonographs to the city of Lexington.

Bettie and Barney soon had twins, Harry and Mimi. The
family became one of the first members of Temple Adath
Israel. As time passed and technology advanced, Barney's
son Harry joined his father's business. Harry made a
significant trip to the New York World’s Fair in 1939 and
ended up placing an order for the first black and white
television sold in Kentucky ($600 out of the pocket of
Warren Wright, Jr. for Calumet Farm). From there, it was
TV history.

Just like his Grandpa Barney, today’s third generation
owner of the same name is well respected with a friendly
good nature. Barney always has a smile and a wise word
for his customers. The staff at Barney Miller’s is
exceptionally well trained and experienced. They pride

The store, still located on East Main,
boasts the area’s most complete
display of home theaters with a
design, installation, and service staff
unrivaled in Kentucky. The
company’s system designers work
with builders, architects, interior
designers, and carpenters helping to
plan home entertainment from the
ground up. Whether they’re involved
in new construction or working on
existing homes, folks in Central
Kentucky know they can count on
experience. In keeping with that is
Barney’s old—fashioned attention to
detail—they make plenty of house
calls to make sure you know how to
operate your equipment.

Barﬁéy‘Mi‘llérfs, i5 oneof ih‘os'é féiﬁjibqbusinesses that give
Lexingtonia‘nswo‘ur sense O‘f‘hi‘Story, buf it’s far from
outdated. Fairness and honesty never go-out of styles
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owned local business each month. Ifyou would like to see your
business featured, please write an article and send it to
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From the Executive Director

Before Jumping on

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As I write these words, I am getting
ready to go to Israel for the Small
Federations Executive Institute. This
group meets in Israel once every four
years thanks to the contribution of a
private foundation that makes it no
more expensive than holding it in the
States. Going to Israel always forces
me to think on many issues.

The first of them is what is going on
today in Israel. In the post-Arafat
era, with Palestinian society rushing
to build their democratic institutions
and making all the right noises about
accommodation with Israel, the
question ”Is this for real?” is a valid
one considering the track record. I
don’t have the answer to that; I don’t
know whether Abu Mazen is going
to survive, politically and / or
literally, I don’t know if he is going
to succeed in changing Palestinian
society, I don’t know if leaving the
Gaza strip is going to make as much
of a difference as Israelis expect, I
don’t know if Abbas is indeed going
to confront his own internal
opposition to peace in the way
successive Israeli prime ministers
have done. What I do know is that
since the beginning of February the
number of victims on both sides is

Daniel Chejfec

significantly down; I do know that
when the forces of CliaOs hit in the
form of a suicide bombing in Tel—
Aviv, the Israeli and Palestinian
police forces worked together to
arrest those responsible; I do know
that there seems to be a new lease on
hope among Israelis. In short, “Is it

organization, for in diversity is
where the secret of our strength lies.
We need to provide services,
promote Jewish education, and work
with the non—Jewish community to
preserve the American values that
make it possible to be a Jew in
America.

We need to provide services, promote
Jewish education, and work with the
non-Jewish community to preserve
the American vaiues that make it
possibie to be a Jew in America.

A third issue is
that of professional
leadership. What
does it mean to be
a professional
leader? I don’t
know whether I
have a big answer
to this one either,

going to work?" I have no idea, but
so far it looks better than ever
before——not perfect, mind you, but
better.

Another issue is that of small
federations, and small communities
in general in America. What is the
best way not only to preserve but
also to strengthen Jewish life in small
communities? We don’t have the
resources of large or intermediate
communities, yet many of the

challenges are the same. We need to ‘

increase affiliation, but we also need
to create an environment which is
welcoming to the unaffiliated; we
need to work together, but we need
also to preserve the separate and
distinct identity of each Jewish

but I can share my
perspective. I believe that being a
professional leader is being a
facilitator and an architect: a
facilitator because we need to make
sure all voices are heard and some
kind of consensus is reached; an
architect because we need to
translate the different needs,
perceptions, and expectations of the
members of our community into
action in a way that works. The
community needs to decide the
direction of the future, but the
professional is the one who needs to
transform those goals into steps
toward accomplishing them. As one
of my community organizing
professors at USC used to say, “You
set big goals, but plan small steps.”

But one of the most important facets
of professional leadership is
probably, in my view, accountability.
While I have my own opinions—and
those who know me know how
strong those are—when I speak I
represent the community, so what I
voice cannot be my opinion but the
community consensus.

There are, of course, the larger issues:
the question of Jewish identity in the
let century and the role of Israel in
it; the question of how to deal with
the fact that Jews, seem to be less and
less inclined to join religious
congregations; the question of how to
deal with the fact that the almighty
”Separation of Church and State”
principle is cracking and that
maybe—just maybe—that's not all
bad. I guess I will not find many
answers during my Israel trip, but I
do hope to get some more questions.
After all, what is a Jew if not a
questioner?

*Editor’s Note: Uaﬂn‘llmately, Daniel
became ill on his way to Israel and was

forced to turn back before leaving the

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Plans are well under way for Camp
Shalom 2005, a day camp sponsored
by the Central Kentucky Jewish
Federation, for children 4 to 13 years
old in the Lexington Jewish
community. This year’s Camp
Shalom will be held for two weeks,
August 1 through August 12, at a
scenic location out Richmond Road
ten miles past Jacobson Park.

Diversity has long been a theme for
Camp Shalom. Years ago, camp was
held in a field with no place of
shelter or modern amenities. But the
kids got together and had fun. This
concept is what Camp Shalom and
its committee feels strongly about.
With such a small Jewish population

Room for Everyone at
Camp Shalom 2005 '

By Eileen Keplz'nger in this community, it is important to provide a place

where people feel welcome, act as role models to others,

and even have a little fun in the process while being
proud of who they are. Camp Shalom has striven over the
years to be inclusive of all ages and provide a fun place
for the whole community.

Arts and crafts, games, and swimming are just some of
the fun activities planned for this summer. Camp will be
in session from 9:00 am. to 3:00 pm. on Monday through
Thursday, with an option of extended day until 5:30 p.m.,
but only from 9:00 am. to 3:00 pm. on Friday. Parents
may sign their children up for one or both weeks. To
reserve a spot, please fill out the registration form on the
brochure you will receive in the mail and send it back
with a non-refundable deposit of $50 for each child
enrolled; the $150 will be applied toward tuition. Please
make the check payable to CKJF and mail to: 1050 Chinoe
Rd, Suite 203, Lexington, KY 40502.

see Camp Shalom page 9

Series on Slavery Reparations
Debate Continues

Local Rabbi to
Contribute

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On March 30 at UK, journalist and
film producer Molly Secours began a
series of talks on the reasons why the
slavery reparations debate should be
explored, particularly in the white
community. The Nashville-based
reparations activist’s essay, ”Riding
the Reparations Bandwagon,” is
featured in Raymond A. W