by lindaoppenheim | Nov 29, 2015 | Opinion
In this piece Debby Irving, author of “Waking Up White,” addresses white professionals in positions of authority in higher education. In this moment of crisis, you have a choice. The comfortable choice may be to double down on the strategies that got you...
by lindaoppenheim | Nov 28, 2015 | Article, Awards, Speech
Award-winning teacher Emily E. Smith describes the lesson one of her students taught her that changed how she teaches. “[M]y children knew about white privilege before I did. The closest I could ever come was empathy. My curriculum from then on...
by lindaoppenheim | Nov 27, 2015 | Video
You know that feeling when your child discovers you’ve been lying to them about something? Some lies we tell are pretty harmless. But others–like those surrounding privilege–contribute to the stubborn inequality in our world. Colin was performing in...
by lindaoppenheim | Nov 25, 2015 | Opinion
As the New York Times editorial on November 25, 2015 states the student activists at Princeton University who prodded the University administration to acknowledge publicly Woodrow Wilson’s “toxic legacy” “performed a valuable public...
by lindaoppenheim | Nov 24, 2015 | Opinion
In a November 24, 2015 op-ed, Gordon J. Davis illustrates the harm President Woodrow Wilson did to African Americans through his re-segregation of the federal government and the dismantling of gains made through Reconstruction.