by lindaoppenheim | Sep 6, 2017 | Events, The New Jim Crow
1. Regular chapter meetings are resuming. These are open to all, regardless of membership status. So please join us for our September meeting. Here are details – Campaign to End the New Jim Crow, Trenton/Princeton Chapter Meeting Tuesday, September 12 6:45 p.m....
by lindaoppenheim | Jun 2, 2015 | The New Jim Crow
Here is a daunting array of reports about the awful state of prisons in the United States. Max Anderson of Stagecoach Ventures, a faith-based startup with new products, has curated these reports . Inspired by Michele Alexander’s The New Jim Crow, there is a ...
by lindaoppenheim | Dec 30, 2014 | Continuing Conversations, The New Jim Crow
Atkinson, a senior staff attorney at the Southern Coalition for Social Justice, speaks with Left of Black host and Professor of Black Popular Culture in the Department of African and African-American Studies at Duke University, Mark Anthony Neal, about mass...
by lindaoppenheim | Dec 4, 2014 | The New Jim Crow
Former New Jersey Governor Jim McGreevey will speak at a panel on The Role of Civil Society in Creating a More Effective Criminal Justice System on Monday, December 8, 4:30 p.m., Princeton University’s McCosh Hall. A documentary on McGreevey’s prison...
by lindaoppenheim | Dec 1, 2014 | Events, The New Jim Crow
A screening and discussion of the documentary “15 to Life: Kenneth’s Story” will take place at 7:00 p.m. Wednesday, Dec. 3, at Princeton Public Library, 65 Witherspoon Street, Princeton, a part of public television’s POV (Point of View) series, the film will be...
by lindaoppenheim | Nov 30, 2014 | Continuing Conversations, Opinion, The New Jim Crow
Potential historical background to the Ferguson riots, a criminologist’s view. “It seems the criminal justice system yields its wrath to people of color when they are perceived as offenders but affords them little justice when they are perceived as...