by lindaoppenheim | May 25, 2015 | Awards
UNITY AWARDS: Nobel Peace Prize nominee Victor Ochen (right) congratulates (from left) Unity Award winners Kimberly Rojas and Harvi Shergill, eighth graders at John Witherspoon Middle School, and Tatianna Sims, a graduating senior from Princeton High. (Photo by Roland...
by lindaoppenheim | May 19, 2015 | Awards, Events
At the Unity Awards Reception on May 17, a nominee for the Nobel Peace Prize spoke and three Princeton students were honored for being role models in their efforts to promote respect for diversity and to advance the cause of race relations. Victor Ochen (second from...
by lindaoppenheim | Apr 4, 2015 | Awards
Tatianna Sims’ documentary about the hurdles minorities face daily earned her this year’s Princeton University’s Prize in Race Relations.
by lindaoppenheim | Mar 4, 2015 | Article, Awards
“An investigation by the Yale Police Department’s Internal Affairs Unit into a complaint that a YPD officer inappropriately used a firearm in detaining Tahj Blow ’16 has found that the officer’s actions complied with department policy.”
by lindaoppenheim | Nov 17, 2014 | Awards, Events
On November 8, 2014, the Board of Governors of the Academy of Motion Picture Arts & Sciences awarded Harry Belafonte the Jean Hersholt Humanitarian Award Oscar for 2014. In his acceptance speech, Belafonte reviewed for the audience some of the more shameful...
by lindaoppenheim | Sep 17, 2014 | Awards, News
Jennifer L. Eberhardt, Stanford University social psychologist, was named a 2014 MacArthur Fellow for her work “regarding visual attention and racial bias in modern policing and criminal sentencing [. She] offers concrete demonstrations that stereotypic...
