by lindaoppenheim | Feb 25, 2023 | News
By Kaitlyn Kennedy Washington DC – After decades of efforts from racial justice advocates, Washington DC Mayor Muriel Bowser has issued an official proclamation declaring February 25, 2023, Reparations Awareness Day. Though it may be one of the first officially...
by lindaoppenheim | Feb 16, 2023 | News
Princeton University Library (PUL) has acquired another letter written by abolitionist, author, and statesman Frederick Douglass. Written in 1861 and currently housed in PUL Special Collections, the acquisition features Douglass contemplating the onset of the Civil...
by lindaoppenheim | Jan 30, 2023 | history, News
From Sherah Ndjongoof AsAmNews “A joint resolution declaring Jan. 30 of each year as “Fred Korematsu Day of Civil Liberties and the Constitution” in N.J. has passed the state’s Senate and Assembly. Titled Assembly Joint Resolution 98, it is expected to be signed...
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...
