by lindaoppenheim | May 26, 2015 | Annual Report, Article, Documents
Fed up with the media perpetuating damaging and destructive stereotypes of black men, artist EJ Brown created a photo project titled “The Mugshot Series,” which includes seven black-and-white images of young black men dressed in cap and gown holding plaques that...
by lindaoppenheim | Mar 31, 2015 | Broadcast
“How do African American men feel about themselves and each other? [NPR’s Michel Martin interviews] professional black men, and find out if they have ever had the experience as being seen as frightening.”
by lindaoppenheim | Mar 30, 2015 | Broadcast
On All Things Considered, “NPR’s Michel Martin speaks with professors Phillip Atiba Goff of UCLA and Harry Holzer of Georgetown University about how fears of African-American men are manifested in the criminal justice system and the labor market, and what...
by lindaoppenheim | Jan 24, 2015 | Review
According to Jennifer Gonnerman’s review in the New York Times Sunday Book Review (January 21, 2015), Jill Leovy, a reporter for the Los Angeles Times “argues that as a nation we have grown far too accepting of our high rate of homicide . . . in large part...
by lindaoppenheim | Dec 6, 2014 | Article
Members of the Black Men’s Union at Yale started a social media campaign about the future of their children.
