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Reflecting on Our Past: The Value of Public Art, April 4, 2019

by lindaoppenheim | Apr 3, 2019 | Events, Truth and Reconciliation

On Thursday, April 4, from 4:30 to 6:30PM, in the Friend Center, Room 101, Walter Hood, Professor and former Chair of Landscape Architecture, University of California, Berkeley and designer of a new installation about Woodrow Wilson to be constructed this summer on...

Princeton Seminary students ask for reparations for school’s history linked to slavery

by lindaoppenheim | Mar 23, 2019 | Article, Truth and Reconciliation

“The Association of Black Seminarians posted a petition online earlier this month as a response to a report that detailed the seminary’s history with slavery, which was released last year. So far, the group has collected more than 400 signatures on the petition,...

Self Tour of African American Life in Princeton Unveiled

by lindaoppenheim | Mar 2, 2019 | Article, Truth and Reconciliation

A self-guided Heritage Tour, sponsored by the Witherspoon-Jackson Historical and Cultural Society (WJHCS) to commemorate 29 noted African American sites in Princeton, is about to become a reality.  For many decades Ms. Shirley Satterfield has been conducting...

Princeton needs new campus monuments

by lindaoppenheim | Feb 5, 2019 | Opinion, Truth and Reconciliation

Lecturer Sean Fraga notes that “Princeton’s campus monuments aren’t truly representative of the University’s past, nor do they reflect the diversity of its student body today,” and calls for more markers of the contributions of women and enslaved African...

My ancestor owned 41 slaves. What do I owe their descendants?

by lindaoppenheim | Jan 18, 2019 | Article, Truth and Reconciliation

John W. Miller’s discovery of an enslaver ancestor led him to grapple with the question of how best to atone.  He considers different current efforts other enslaver descendants have tried and offers economist William Darity’s description of “white...

Witherspoon Jackson Neighborhood Association meeting, CORRECTION January 19, 2019

by lindaoppenheim | Jan 14, 2019 | Community Meeting, Truth and Reconciliation

Image of John Street from Walkable Princeton The Witherspoon Jackson Neighborhood Association, is meeting on Saturday, January 19, 2019 @ 9:30 AM, at the FIRST BAPTIST CHURCH, 30 Green St, Princeton, NJ 08542 Our focus this month will be on preserving the history,...
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