Racism is a grown-up disease. Let’s not use our children to spread it.

Traditions and systems put in place by slavery and colonialism have shaped our present inequalities and still need our repair.

Explore Jacqui’s story of being forcibly separated from her family during Belgium’s colonial rule and reflect on what meaningful repair can look like for harms tied to identity, belonging, and stolen histories.

Learn the story of Ruby Bridges, the six-year-old who helped desegregate schools in America, and reflect on what her courage teaches us about progress, resistance, and the ongoing work of repair.

Norman Rockwell’s The Problem We All Live With depicts the story of Ruby Bridges, challenging America’s idealized self-image. Art sometimes allows us to confront challenging aspects of our world that are otherwise hard to look at head-on.

This article reflects on what meaningful repair can look like at a national level and why accountability matters even when repair is imperfect.