by lindaoppenheim | May 5, 2019 | Continuing Conversations
On Monday, May 6th at 7pm in the Princeton Public Library’s Community Room, we will have an opportunity to hear an update on the fight against racially discriminatory housing practices from Rev. Eric Dobson. Rev. Dobson is outreach coordinator for the Fair Share...
by lindaoppenheim | Apr 27, 2019 | Events, Stand Against Racism
On Thursday, April 25, at the YWCA Princeton’s 2019 Stand Against Racism, NIOT Princeton board members, Caroline Clarke and Joanne Parker, presented. “Black girls experience age compression starting at age 5. A study by Georgetown Center on Poverty...
by lindaoppenheim | Feb 24, 2019 | Article, history
Kathleen O’Brien rightly notes the limitations of the Oscar-nominated movie Green Book, which tells the story of the friendship between pianist Dr. Don Shirley and his chauffeur Tony Lip and depicts segregation in accommodations in the South in the 1950s. (The...
by lindaoppenheim | Oct 15, 2018 | Opinion
In light of the lawsuit challenging Harvard’s affirmative action policies, claiming that the university discriminates against Asian-American applicants, novelist Lisa Ko notes that “the model-minority myth [has been] leveraged by both whites and Asians to...
by lindaoppenheim | Sep 13, 2018 | Documents
The U.S. Commission on Civil Rights has released its 2018 report “An Assessment of Minority Voting Rights Access in the United States.” Commission Chair Catherine E. Lhamon said that the report “reflects the reality that citizens in the United...
