by lindaoppenheim | Feb 25, 2019 | Article, history, Website
“Massachusetts was the first [colony] to legalize slavery, in 1641. Even before then, merchants in the Massachusetts Bay Colony had enslaved Native Americans, and by 1638 were bartering them for Africans in the West Indies. The slave trade grew from there and...
by lindaoppenheim | Jun 11, 2018 | Opinion
Steve Chapman, Chicago Tribune reporter, compares white attitudes toward current protests against injustices–Black Lives Matter, kneeling during the National Anthem, etc.–to poll responses by whites during civil rights actions in the 1960s. “Every...
by lindaoppenheim | Apr 28, 2018 | Community Meeting, Events, Video
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by lindaoppenheim | Nov 21, 2017 | Opinion
Yale historian Glenda Elizabeth Gilmore explains the similarity between Colin Kaepernick’s protest and that of Rosa Parks and the Greensboro lunch counter sit-ins, refuting the commonly held belief that the latter two “materialized from an...
