Truth commissions to gather in Greensboro

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Posted on Sat, Jul. 01, 2006
Associated Press

GREENSBORO, N.C. - Members of truth commissions from other countries will gather later this week in Greensboro to help people from U.S. communities that have begun similar projects or hope to do so ...

Among those scheduled to attend is Irving Joyner, vice chairman of the 1898 Wilmington Race Riot Commission, which the Legislature created to study and report on the 1898 seizure of power in Wilmington from a democratically elected, majority-black city government. That group's report was released May 31.

Others attending include representatives from:

_ New Orleans, where government inaction during and after Hurricane Katrina in 2005 has raised questions of race, class and politics ...

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