by lindaoppenheim | Apr 26, 2022 | News
Harvard University published the report of the Presidential Committee on Harvard & the Legacy of Slavery that documents that “[d]uring the 17th and 18th centuries, the sale and trafficking of human beings—in slavery—and the industries rooted in the labor of...
by lindaoppenheim | Apr 12, 2019 | News, Video
If you ask yourself “How can I contribute to reparations for slavery, Jim Crow, mass incarceration, etc.?”, look to these Georgetown University students for an example and listen to the counter-proposal by William A. Darity, Jr., leading scholar on...
by lindaoppenheim | Nov 29, 2018 | News
In New Jersey, a black person was more than three times more likely to face police force than someone who is white. This is one of the findings from a database of police use of force in New Jersey. “The Force Report, a 16-month investigation by NJ Advance...
by lindaoppenheim | Mar 3, 2018 | interview, News, Podcast
“On the Media,” airing Saturdays at 7 a.m., covers how the media operates. This morning (March 3) it aired an extremely important segment on covering race and how America’s journalists are sometimes pawns for the KKK. The very last anecdote...
by lindaoppenheim | Jan 27, 2018 | Annual Report, News
PRINCETON, NJ: The board of Not in Our Town Princeton (NIOT Princeton) has elected officers and adopted a new mission statement. Simona L. Brickers and Princess G. Hoagland are the new co-chairs, replacing Larry Spruill and Linda Oppenheim, who is now the secretary....
by lindaoppenheim | Sep 17, 2017 | News, Truth and Reconciliation
Rutgers University has renamed its College Avenue Apartments to honor Sojourner Truth, leading abolitionist and advocate for women’s rights. Kilmer Library on Rutgers-New Brunswick’s Livingston Campus in Piscataway has been renamed the James Dickson Carr Library...