Making Amends

TED Radio Hour

NPR

Science, Society & Culture, Technology, Social Sciences

4.3 • 21.7K Ratings

🗓️ 10 July 2020

⏱️ 52 minutes

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What makes a true apology? What does it mean to make amends for past mistakes? This hour, TED speakers explore how repairing the wrongs of the past is the first step toward healing for the future. Guests include historian and preservationist Brent Leggs, law professor Martha Minow, librarian Dawn Wacek, and playwright V (formerly Eve Ensler).

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0:00.0	This is the Ted Radio Hour.
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0:39.5	I'm Manouche Zamorodi.
0:41.4	And a few months ago, I visited Birmingham, Alabama.
0:44.8	You were standing at Brown, C-Rome,
0:46.8	in the 1963 civil rights struggle in Birmingham, Alabama.
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