by lindaoppenheim | Jun 21, 2015 | Opinion
Michael Eric Dyson in the New York Times (“Love and Terror in the Black Church,” Sunday, June 21, 2015) and NPR’s Rachel Martin talking to Rev. Charles Watkins in Charleston (“Churches Try To Stay Safe — And Keep Their Open-Door...
by lindaoppenheim | Jun 19, 2015 | Events
Organized by Mt. Pisgah AME Church in Princeton NJ, in collaboration with the Princeton Clergy Association and the Coalition for Peace Action, join with people of good will across our nation heart-broken and grieving for the nine people recently massacred at the...
by lindaoppenheim | Apr 19, 2015 | Article, Opinion
“Social protest forces us to see realities we would rather avoid, and blacks live in mortal fear for our lives in a manner that most whites don’t see or understand.” In a New York Times op ed, Michael Eric Dyson comments on media representation of the...
by lindaoppenheim | Mar 8, 2015 | Article, Events
President Obama spoke at the 50th anniversary commemoration of Bloody Sunday and the attack on marchers attempting to cross the Edmund Pettus bridge in Selma, Alabama, demanding the right to vote. A couple of days earlier, in Madison, Wisconsin, marchers protested...
