by lindaoppenheim | Nov 13, 2014 | Events, The New Jim Crow
Just posthumously awarded the Presidential Medal of Freedom: James Chaney, Andrew Goodman, and Michael Schwerner, who were killed as they participated in the 1964 Freedom Summer drive to register black voters in Mississippi. “Their deaths shocked the nation and...
by lindaoppenheim | Oct 25, 2014 | Events, Opinion, The New Jim Crow
The play at Passage Theater, highly recommended, has been extended through November 2.
by lindaoppenheim | Oct 23, 2014 | Events, The New Jim Crow
by lindaoppenheim | Oct 11, 2014 | Events, News, Opinion, The New Jim Crow
Nicholas Kristof (New York Times) quotes Bryan Stevenson: “We have a system that treats you better if you’re rich and guilty than if you’re poor and innocent.” That’s what the Campaign to End the New Jim Crow’s Moral Monday Rally is all about. It...
by lindaoppenheim | Sep 4, 2014 | Events, Opinion, The New Jim Crow
Broken on All Sides, a documentary about race, mass incarceration, and new visions for criminal justice in the U.S., will be screened Sunday, September 14, 4 to 6:30 p.m. at the Jewish Center, 435 Nassau Street, Princeton. Following the film, there will be a...