by lindaoppenheim | Jul 7, 2018 | Call to Action
How do you feel about armed retired police officers in each of West Windsor-Plainsboro schools? Did you know that the School Board and West Windsor-Plainsboro townships are close to approving a proposal that would increase law enforcement presence in schools starting...
by lindaoppenheim | May 27, 2018 | Broadcast, interview, Podcast
On NPR’s Weekend Edition Sunday, host Lulu Garcia-Navarro asks Khalil Muhammad, a professor of history, race and public policy at Harvard University, “Are incidents of white people calling the police on people of color for various reasons, none involving...
by lindaoppenheim | May 16, 2018 | Podcast
“Riley Temple was walking his dog around his Washington, D.C., neighborhood where he has lived for the past 25 years when a confrontation with the police made him break the rule that all black people are told to obey in order to survive.” Temple describes...
by lindaoppenheim | May 15, 2018 | Opinion, Podcast
Describing some of the many recent instances of white people calling the police or security about people of color, Richard J. Reddick comments in Fortune: “[T]hese instances experienced by black people and people of color illuminate how routine life experiences...
by lindaoppenheim | Apr 23, 2018 | Opinion
“The Waffle House shooter had his guns taken away and given back to him, and the question is whether or not that would’ve happened if Travis Reinking was Black. His father, who ultimately was given the guns back by the police, promised to keep the weapons...