Princeton Seminary students ask for reparations for school’s history linked to slavery

by lindaoppenheim | Mar 23, 2019 | Article, Truth and Reconciliation

“The Association of Black Seminarians posted a petition online earlier this month as a response to a report that detailed the seminary’s history with slavery, which was released last year. So far, the group has collected more than 400 signatures on the petition,...

Alumni speak on the Black Justice League’s fight against the University’s racist legacies

by lindaoppenheim | Mar 9, 2019 | Article

Princeton alumni, who were members of the Black Justice League (BJL), who demonstrated and sat-in in 2015 for changes at Princeton University, recall the events and what has changed and not changed in the intervening years.  Click here to read the complete...

From students in high school all the way to the president’s desk.’ How a government class fought for the release of unsolved FBI civil rights case files.

by lindaoppenheim | Feb 28, 2019 | Article

Tom Jackman’s article describes the efforts of Hightstown, NJ high school students to get the federal government to release information about 128 “cold” cases of lynchings of black Southerners in the decades after World War II .  “Hightstown...

Students weigh in on how to fix New Jersey’s school segregation problem

by lindaoppenheim | Feb 26, 2019 | Article

New Jersey is ranked the sixth-most-segregated state in the nation for black students, and seventh for Latino students.  High school students from Ridgewood, Leonia, Cliffside Park and New Milford recently convened to propose solutions to the racial divisions in New...

Princeton needs new campus monuments

by lindaoppenheim | Feb 5, 2019 | Opinion, Truth and Reconciliation

Lecturer Sean Fraga notes that “Princeton’s campus monuments aren’t truly representative of the University’s past, nor do they reflect the diversity of its student body today,” and calls for more markers of the contributions of women and enslaved African...