by lindaoppenheim | May 13, 2023
Registration for the virtual 7th Annual Awards and Conference is now open. This virtual event will commemorate the memory of and educate others about individuals who were freed or enslaved in the U.S. on or before 1866. The focus is on their lives and the fact they...
by lindaoppenheim | Jul 13, 2017 | Article, Truth and Reconciliation
Today began the bloodiest riot in American history, and it wasn’t in Newark in 1967 (click here) and its perpetrators weren’t black, they were white. To read about the Draft Riots of 1863, click here and read the second item.
by lindaoppenheim | May 11, 2017 | Opinion
Longtime New Orleans’ resident and author, Michael Tisserand, supports Mayor Mitch Landrieu’s order to remove four prominent monuments portraying Confederate officials and generals ” as well as an obelisk celebrating the white militia that in 1874...