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...

America’s Forgotten Mass Lynching: When 237 People Were Murdered In Arkansas

by lindaoppenheim | Apr 11, 2022 | Article

Following World War I, efforts to form a new union, the Progressive Farmers and Household Union of America led to one of the worst incidents of racial violence initiated by whites against black sharecroppers according to a just released report from the Equal Justice...

Selections to Read, Watch, Listen, and Learn about Race, Racism, and Anti-Racism from February and March, 2022

by lindaoppenheim | Mar 22, 2022 | Article

“Racism runs through it: Examining the sexual and reproductive health experience of Black women in the South,” Health Affairs, Vol. 41, No. 2, February 2022 “This article presents findings of a collaborative study by a research team and a...