by lindaoppenheim | Apr 17, 2018 | Broadcast, Events
Wednesday, April 25th from 6:45-8:00 pm, The Lawrenceville School will host the next installation of The Other Box Project on the topic “The Power of Youth Movements: From Birmingham to Parkland.” The program will consider the role of students’...
by lindaoppenheim | Apr 4, 2018 | Broadcast, interview
“New York’s Cardozo Law School Professor Ekow Yankah compares today’s approach to heroin users to the tough-on-crime response a few decades ago to those using crack cocaine.” Click here to hear the PBS News Hour interview.
by lindaoppenheim | Jan 9, 2018 | Broadcast, Podcast
“Looking at 2014 data, dating website OkCupid co-founder Christian Rudder wrote that user data showed most men on the site rated black women as less attractive than women of other races and ethnicities. Similarly, Asian men fell at the bottom of the preference...
by lindaoppenheim | Dec 20, 2017 | Broadcast
An NPR segment (December 20, 2017) cited scientists who have spent decades researching the high death rate of African American infants. “Black babies in the United States die at just over two times the rate of white babies in the first year of their...
by lindaoppenheim | Aug 12, 2017 | Broadcast, Website
This Radio Lab podcast examined police shootings. Featured are Tampa Bay Times reporter Ben Montgomery, who collected six years of records of Florida police shootings which are available in an online database Why Cops Shoot, Mothers of the Movement, women whose...
by lindaoppenheim | May 19, 2017 | Broadcast, Events
Talking about race can evoke fear, anger, misunderstanding. So it often remains the elephant in the room. This panel discussion asks the question, “What do we lose when we don’t talk about race and how could our lives improve if we did?” Why this issue? In...