News from Not In Our Town
One Bullet, One Hundred Sets of Hands
https://pulitzercenter.org/sites/default/files/inline-images/Record%20%28online-voice-recorder.com%29.mp3 Every year, the Pulitzer Center invites K-12 students around the world to uplift urgent, under-reported issues by writing poems that include lines from one...
New history podcast documentary from Professor Eddie Glaude
Written and narrated by award-winning author and Professor of African American Studies at Princeton University, Dr. Eddie S. Glaude, “History is US” is a 6-part audio documentary produced and developed by C13Originals that asks questions about who we are as a nation,...
Now accepting applications for our Youth Fellowship program!
Not In Our Town Princeton's Youth Fellowship Application is now open through June 30, 2022. The NIOT Princeton board will provide individual mentorship, support, and resources to up to 3 selected high school students (“Fellows”) in the coming academic year for...
Report on Native American children at boarding schools
A report from an investigation by the Interior Department, commissioned by Interior Secretary Deb Haaland, released on May 11, 2022, "highlighted the abuse of many of the children at the government-run schools, such as beatings, withholding of food and solitary...
The African American Policy Forum (AAPF) 2022 Young Scholars Program: Art, Activism and Advocacy
The Young Scholars Program (YSP) is a multi-phased mentorship course in which a cohort of young Black women and girls are organized to develop their research and leadership skills. The Young Scholars Program begins with a six-week remote summer intensive research...
New Jersey Says It Studies Charter School Segregation, But Won’t Share The Findings
Patrick Wall, of Chalkbeat Newark, reports that the New Jersey attorney general is supporting the state's Department of Education's position that the state does not have to reveal its segregation findings about charter schools— or even put them in writing.
Harvard University Releases Report on Its Legacy of Slavery
Harvard University published the report of the Presidential Committee on Harvard & the Legacy of Slavery that documents that "[d]uring the 17th and 18th centuries, the sale and trafficking of human beings—in slavery—and the industries rooted in the labor of...
America’s Forgotten Mass Lynching: When 237 People Were Murdered In Arkansas
Following World War I, efforts to form a new union, the Progressive Farmers and Household Union of America led to one of the worst incidents of racial violence initiated by whites against black sharecroppers according to a just released report from the Equal Justice...
Selections to Read, Watch, Listen, and Learn about Race, Racism, and Anti-Racism from February and March, 2022
"Racism runs through it: Examining the sexual and reproductive health experience of Black women in the South," Health Affairs, Vol. 41, No. 2, February 2022 "This article presents findings of a collaborative study by a research team and a reproductive justice...