by lindaoppenheim | Jan 23, 2023
What are the costs of black activism? Which citizens are asked to perform the necessary democratic labor to redress racial injustice? This talk, which is drawn from a larger book project, Black Grief/White Grievance: The Politics of Loss (Princeton University Press,...
by lindaoppenheim | Oct 3, 2022
A program sponsored by The Sankofa Collaborative. The keynote speaker is Dr. Jonathan Holloway, president of Rutgers University and an eminent historian specializing in post-emancipation United States history with a focus on social and intellectual history. Dr....
by lindaoppenheim | Aug 30, 2018 | Article
The state of Vermont’s lone black female lawmaker, Rep. Ruqaiyah “Kiah” Morris (D-Bennington), announced that she will not be running for re-election this year, in part because of the overwhelming amount of racist threats she’s received. Read the report in The Root...
by lindaoppenheim | Sep 13, 2016 | Speech
Thursday, Sept. 15, 4:30 p.m. in Wallace Hall, Room 300. Since its rapid rise in early 2009, scholars have advanced a variety of explanations for popular support for the Tea Party movement. Robb Willer argues that various political, economic, and demographic trends...
