by lindaoppenheim | Feb 25, 2016 | Opinion, Speech
In his sermon, talking to white people about racism, something that he had previously sworn off doing, John Metta explains the nuances of present day racism. “Racism is the fact that “White” means “normal” and that anything else is...
by lindaoppenheim | Nov 28, 2015 | Article, Awards, Speech
Award-winning teacher Emily E. Smith describes the lesson one of her students taught her that changed how she teaches. “[M]y children knew about white privilege before I did. The closest I could ever come was empathy. My curriculum from then on...
by lindaoppenheim | Oct 16, 2015 | Speech
Civil rights lawyer Bryan Stevenson, on October 14, urged Rider University students to create more justice in the world. As quoted by Cristina Rojas in the Times of Trenton, “Our history is that for decades in this country, we burdened and we battered and we...
by lindaoppenheim | Jul 4, 2015 | Documents, Speech
On July 5, 1852, abolitionist Frederick Douglass was invited to speak in commemoration of the signing of the Declaration of Independence “What, to the American slave, is your 4th of July? I answer: a day that reveals to him, more than all other days in the year,...