by lindaoppenheim | Jan 22, 2016 | Events
Issues of policing and incarceration – both locally and nationally – will be in sharp focus as the thirty-sixth annual Marion Thompson Wright Lecture Series (MTW) invites a wide-ranging discussion of the historical developments that have brought us to events in...
by lindaoppenheim | Nov 8, 2015 | Article
Bijan Stephen, an associate editor at the New Republic, compares the Black Lives Matter use of social media with the civil rights movement of the 1960s’ use of technology. Among other advantages is “drawing hate out into the light” through comments...
by lindaoppenheim | Jul 30, 2015 | Article, Video
“A lot of white people are truly shocked by what these videos depict; I know very few African-Americans who are surprised,” said Paul D. Butler, a law professor at Georgetown University and a former prosecutor.
by lindaoppenheim | Jul 13, 2015 | Review
Ta-Nehisi Coates, writer for the Atlantic and author of an article on reparations in that journal, is interviewed by Terry Gross on NPR’s Fresh Air, after the publication of his book Between the World and Me. Read a review of the book by Hope Wabuke on The...
by lindaoppenheim | Jun 11, 2015 | Article
Vox Media reporter Jenée Desmond-Harris writes about the white teens who responded to racist comments by white adults in McKinney and who recorded the action once the police arrived and posted it on Youtube. “Outside of the context of American racism, what the...