by lindaoppenheim | Feb 19, 2015 | Continuing Conversations, Opinion
Charles Blow brings his usual brilliant analysis to the talk about policing and race by FBI director James Comey, in his February 15, 2015 column in the New York Times. “What too few people mention when discussing crime is the degree to which concentrated...
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 | Nov 17, 2014 | Article, Opinion
Nicholas Kristof published the fourth installment of his series entitled “When Whites Just Don’t Get It.” He addresses “personal responsibility,” an issue raised by some of his readers, and reminds them that “centuries of racial...
by lindaoppenheim | Nov 7, 2014 | Article
Julie Bosman and Monica Davey report on the climate in Ferguson as the town and the nation wait to see if Officer Darren Wilson will be indicted for killing Michael Brown in August.
by lindaoppenheim | Oct 16, 2014 | Events
“Winner of the 2014 Sundance Film Festival’s Special Jury Award for Breakthrough Talent, Dear White People is a sly, provocative satire of race relations in the age of Obama. Writer/director Justin Simien follows a group of African American students as...
