by lindaoppenheim | Dec 31, 2018 | Opinion
Referencing an African American New Year’s Eve tradition of Watch Night, gathering in church to sing freedom songs, dating back to the eve of December 31, 1862 and the anticipation of the freedom declared in the Emancipation Proclamation, Jesse L. Jackson, Sr....
by lindaoppenheim | Dec 19, 2018 | Opinion
The Associated Press’ national writer on race and ethnicity, Errin Haines Whack, exhorts her colleagues to go beyond writing about race, “to not just report on racism, but to call it out. . . .Our avoidance of this issue — and the historical harm done as a...
by lindaoppenheim | Dec 14, 2018 | Opinion
First year student Julia Chaffers, who resides in Wilson College and is considering studying at the Woodrow Wilson School of Public and International Affairs, reflects on the conflict that presents for her, an African American woman, and on what it says about the...
by lindaoppenheim | Dec 10, 2018 | Opinion
In his New York Times op ed, Casey Gerald, author of There Will Be No Miracles Here, reflects on the expose about the Louisiana school T. M. Landry and his own experience from a poor neighborhood in Texas through Yale, Wall Street, and the Washington political scene. ...
by lindaoppenheim | Dec 7, 2018 | Article, Opinion
With his essay, “This is what an antiracist America would look like. How do we get there?,” Ibram X. Kendi, author of Stamped from the Beginning 2016 National Book Award winner for nonfiction and Founding Director of the Antiracist Research and Policy...
by lindaoppenheim | Nov 28, 2018 | Call to Action, Opinion, Truth and Reconciliation
“The Princeton Reconstruction Project is comprised of concerned students calling for an active Reconstruction of Princeton University — an intentional pivot from its roots as a White supremacist institution to one that reflects the current values it...
