by lindaoppenheim | Apr 3, 2019 | Events, Truth and Reconciliation
On Thursday, April 4, from 4:30 to 6:30PM, in the Friend Center, Room 101, Walter Hood, Professor and former Chair of Landscape Architecture, University of California, Berkeley and designer of a new installation about Woodrow Wilson to be constructed this summer on...
by lindaoppenheim | Jan 1, 2019 | Article
Susan Svrluga describes how a protest against lynching by Howard University students in the 1930s set an example for University of North Carolina protesting the statue on campus known as Silent Sam that honors the Confederacy. To read the article, click...
by lindaoppenheim | Oct 20, 2018 | Opinion
Princeton University sophomore, Siyang Liu, urges changes in representation in campus buildings in her October 18 opinion piece in the Princetonian. “Our student body is far more diverse today than it has ever been before, and building names should reflect...
by lindaoppenheim | Aug 7, 2018 | Article, Truth and Reconciliation
“[I]t took 52 years for historical markers to be erected at locations related to the teenager’s death, which galvanized the civil rights movement after the acquittal. And now, at the spot marking where Till’s body was pulled from the river, it took just 35 days...
by lindaoppenheim | Nov 26, 2017 | Opinion, Truth and Reconciliation
How to recognize how deeply white supremacy is ingrained in ourselves and our institutions and how difficult it is to create a suitable commemoration of those who suffered the greatest impact is evident in this reflection about a memorial on the University of North...