by lindaoppenheim | Mar 15, 2019 | Article
In his article in the Atlantic, Adam Serwer ties Madison Grant’s 1916 book The Passing of the Great Race to current political and ideological struggles as well as to its long acknowledged source for Hitler with its doctrine of race purity. “[T]o...
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...
by lindaoppenheim | Mar 6, 2019 | Article, Documents
What was your favorite Dr. Seuss book? Mine was The 500 Hats of Bartholomew Cubbins. March 2, the birthday of Theodore Geisel, better known as Dr. Seuss, was adopted in 1998 by the National Education Association as “Read across America” to encourage...
by lindaoppenheim | Mar 6, 2019 | Article, Documents, history
“For most Americans, black history begins in 1619, when a Dutch ship brought some “20 and odd Negroes” as slaves to the English colony of Jamestown, in Virginia. Many are not aware that black history in the United States goes back at least a century before this...
by lindaoppenheim | Mar 4, 2019 | Article, Documents
“The report, released this week by the nonprofit EdBuild, put a dollar amount on the problem of school segregation, which has persisted long after Brown v. Board of Education and was targeted in recent lawsuits in states from New Jersey to Minnesota. . . ....
by lindaoppenheim | Mar 2, 2019 | Article
EurekaAlerts highlights a reported study in Lancet. “Police killings of unarmed black Americans have adverse effects on the mental health of black American adults in the general population, according to a new population-based study. . . . In a linked Comment ,...