by lindaoppenheim | Jun 25, 2017 | Call to Action, Events
Read Ryan P. Haygood’s, president and CEO of the New Jersey Institute for Social Justice, op ed in the Trenton Times calling for the closing of the state’s youth prisons.
by lindaoppenheim | May 26, 2017 | Call to Action, Events
Princeton’s Civil Rights Commission will hold a special meeting on Tuesday, May 30th, at 6:30pm in Conference Room A of the Princeton Municipal Building (400 Witherspoon Street). The purpose of the meeting is to give Princeton’s Superintendent of Schools,...
by lindaoppenheim | Apr 24, 2017 | Call to Action, Community Meeting
Show up Tuesday to Support Students! Princeton High School’s students of color were affected by the use of the N-word in the recently publicized Snapchat incident as well as by racial slurs and other demeaning tactics used to diminish their value as individuals. Some...
by lindaoppenheim | Apr 17, 2017 | Call to Action
Marshall Zamor died on March 29 in NJ State Police custody. BLM-NJ (Black Lives Matter) is supporting the Zamor family as they seek answers from the police and the attorney general, who have refused to release video of the arrest or the holding cell. Black Lives...
by lindaoppenheim | Mar 14, 2017 | Call to Action
Please contact your New Jersey Assembly member to vote yes on this important criminal justice reform. The vote is THURSDAY, MARCH 16. As below. The drug war has produced profoundly unequal outcomes in New Jersey’s criminal justice system. We have the highest racial...
by lindaoppenheim | Feb 2, 2017 | Call to Action, Events, Uncategorized
I Am Not Your Negro , an Academy Award-nominated film by Raoul Peck, is an up-to-the-minute examination of race in America. It will be in some theaters on February 3. Here is the trailer. In his New York Times review, A.O. Scott writes “Whatever you think about...