by lindaoppenheim | Apr 4, 2015 | Awards
Tatianna Sims’ documentary about the hurdles minorities face daily earned her this year’s Princeton University’s Prize in Race Relations.
by lindaoppenheim | Mar 20, 2015 | Events
Theater manager and advocate, Howard Sherman “will focus on the nexus of these two current positions he holds. ‘How do we stand for the rights of artists to speak their minds freely — on stage, through texts, and elsewhere,’ asks Sherman,...
by lindaoppenheim | Jan 25, 2015 | Continuing Conversations, Opinion
Voices in the Family , a radio program on WHYY, hosted a discussion of how civil rights history is (or isn’t) taught in Pennsylvania and New Jersey. This program, available by podcast, could inform the Continuing Conversations on Race discussion on Monday,...
by lindaoppenheim | Jan 6, 2015 | Opinion
Verna Myers, diversity expert, looks closely at some of the subconscious attitudes we hold toward out-groups. Acknowledge your biases, she says. Then move toward, not away from, groups that make you uncomfortable. Here is her “funny, impassioned, important...
by lindaoppenheim | Nov 24, 2014 | Article
What will change attitudes, hearts and minds? People need to be educated about their level of privilege. UCLA is mandating a course on diversity, which is a start.