USPS dedicates ‘beautiful and powerful’ Toni Morrison stamp at Princeton

by lindaoppenheim | Mar 11, 2023 | Article

Photo by Denise Applewhite, Office of Communications The Toni Morrison Forever Stamp was officially unveiled at Princeton on March 7 by Pritha Mehra, chief information officer and executive vice president of the Postal Service (fourth from left). Joining her on stage...

Murphy says New Jersey will expand AP Black history classes

by lindaoppenheim | Feb 17, 2023 | Article

  “Gov. Phil Murphy said Tuesday that his administration is expanding Advanced Placement African American Studies courses next year from one school to 26 in New Jersey. . . . ‘New Jersey will proudly teach our kids that Black History is American...

Late photographer’s photo collage of Witherspoon-Jackson neighborhood on display through banners in Princeton

by lindaoppenheim | Aug 19, 2022 | Article

[By LEA KAHN, Staff Writer, Princeton Packet, August 9, 2022] “Romus Broadway, a self-described social historian, spent six decades capturing daily life in the Witherspoon-Jackson neighborhood on his camera. Some of those images will be on display as...

Local historian celebrated for her work to preserve the historically Black Witherspoon-Jackson neighborhood

by lindaoppenheim | Aug 19, 2022 | Article, Awards, history

[by ANDREW HARRISON, Staff Writer, Princeton Packet] Shirley Satterfield, founder of the Witherspoon-Jackson Historical and Cultural Society and board member of Not in Our Town Princeton, was celebrated and recognized for her work when the Joint Effort...

Beauty of Diversity in the Natural World

by lindaoppenheim | Aug 3, 2022 | Article, books, Continuing Conversations, Video

On Monday, August 1, 2022, Renata Barnes and Alex Rivera, Coordinator and Vice-Chair respectively of Outdoor Equity Alliance, presented at Not in Our Town Princeton’s Continuing Conversations on Race and White Privilege.  The recording of the presentation will...

New Jersey Says It Studies Charter School Segregation, But Won’t Share The Findings

by lindaoppenheim | May 4, 2022 | Article, schools

  Patrick Wall, of Chalkbeat Newark, reports that the New Jersey attorney general is supporting the state’s Department of Education’s position that the state does not have to reveal its segregation findings about charter schools— or even put them in...