Murphy says New Jersey will expand AP Black history classes

by lindaoppenheim | Feb 17, 2023 | Article

  “Gov. Phil Murphy said Tuesday that his administration is expanding Advanced Placement African American Studies courses next year from one school to 26 in New Jersey. . . . ‘New Jersey will proudly teach our kids that Black History is American...

“The Price of Silence” Parts 1 &2: NJ PBS Documentary on Slavery in NJ

by lindaoppenheim | Aug 31, 2022 | history, Video

Streaming now on the NJ PBS website: “The Price of Silence” Parts 1 &2 Two and a half years in the making, this Truehart Productions documentary fills a gap in NJ history by telling the little-known story of slavery across the state. “New Jersey...

New Jersey Black Issues Convention Annual Legislative Conference, May 23, 2019

by lindaoppenheim | May 9, 2019 | Conference, Events

This free event, sponsored by New Jersey Black Issues Convention, Thursday, May 23, 9 am to 2:30 pm, brings to the forefront issues that are affecting African-Americans in the State of New Jersey and come together to bring progress to New Jersey’s Black...

Students weigh in on how to fix New Jersey’s school segregation problem

by lindaoppenheim | Feb 26, 2019 | Article

New Jersey is ranked the sixth-most-segregated state in the nation for black students, and seventh for Latino students.  High school students from Ridgewood, Leonia, Cliffside Park and New Milford recently convened to propose solutions to the racial divisions in New...

Black travelers had every reason to fear N.J., but you wouldn’t know it from ‘Green Book.’

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...