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...
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...
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...
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...
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...