by lindaoppenheim | Feb 20, 2019 | Events, interview
Tickets on sale, February 25 at noon.
by lindaoppenheim | Jan 9, 2019 | Podcast
NPR’s Noel King talked to a 13-year-old African-American hockey player and his father about a recent ice hockey tournament and how his teammates rallied around him, after they saw that he was being subjected to racist abuse from the opposing team. Listen to the...
by lindaoppenheim | Jun 6, 2018 | history, Opinion
Chad Williams, Associate Professor of African and Afro-American Studies at Brandeis University, draws on his research about African Americans in World War I to shine a light on the relationship between African Americans and patriotism. “I see the decision by...
by lindaoppenheim | May 3, 2017 | Broadcast, interview
This segment describes slurs directed at the Orioles outfielder Adam Jones. The “progressive city” is still dealing with its racist history. The Red Sox was the last major league baseball team to desegregate.
by lindaoppenheim | Aug 20, 2016 | Uncategorized
In Joy-Ann Reid’s analysis in the Washington Post of the achievement of the American black women Olympic athletes, she states that “the measure of their reception is a measure of the uneven progress of black women in terms of the full measure of...
