by lindaoppenheim | Mar 20, 2019 | Events
Richardson Auditorium, 8:00 pm Anita Hill is University Professor of Social Policy, Law, and Women’s, Gender and Sexuality Studies at Brandeis University. Professor Hill’s commentary, which has been published in TIME, Newsweek, The New York Times, The Boston...
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 | Jul 1, 2018 | Article, Podcast
Anne Branigin reports that the three African American Senators “Kamala Harris (D-Calif.), Cory Booker (D-N.J.) and Tim Scott (R-S.C.), introduced a bill Friday that would make lynching a federal hate crime. The bill is similar to one introduced earlier this...
by lindaoppenheim | Jun 6, 2018 | Workshop
Come celebrate Juneteenth, marking the official end of slavery in the United States, at the New Jersey State Library with a lecture on Slavery in 19th Century New Jersey. We’ll be discussing slavery and slavery laws in New Jersey in the 19th Century (1800’s). The...
by lindaoppenheim | May 28, 2018 | Opinion
Andrew W. Kahrl, an associate professor of history and African-American studies at the University of Virginia, provides examples of preventing beach access to brown and black people to illustrate how town’s in the North use “quality of life” laws to...
