Finding the Disappeared Children of the War in El Salvador & The History Behind Black History Month

Part I. Finding The Disappeared Children of the War in El Salvador 

Guest:  Elizabeth Barnert is a pediatrician and Associate Professor of Pediatrics at the University of California, Los Angeles.  Her research, grounded in human rights and social action, examines children affected by violence, family separation, and incarceration. She is the author of the book Reunion: Finding the Disappeared Children of El Salvador.

For more information about the DNA Family Reunification Project go to:

DNA Family Reunification Project: Pro-Búsqueda’s History of Reuniting Families with Asociación Pro-Búsqueda de Niñas y Niños Desaparecidos (Organization in Search of Disappeared Children), an NGO in San Salvador that reunites families with children who were abducted or surrendered under duress during the Salvadoran Civil War.

 

Part II. The History Behind Black History Month

Guest: Gerald Horn is John J. and Rebecca Moores Professor of African American History at the University of Houston. He has published more than three dozen books, including The Apocalypse of Settler Colonialism, Jazz and Justice, and his latest, The Counter-Revolution of 1776: Slave Resistance and the Origins of the United States of America, and The Bittersweet Science: racism, racketeering , and the political economy of boxing.

 

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