by lindaoppenheim | Oct 20, 2018 | Opinion
Princeton University sophomore, Siyang Liu, urges changes in representation in campus buildings in her October 18 opinion piece in the Princetonian. “Our student body is far more diverse today than it has ever been before, and building names should reflect...
by lindaoppenheim | Oct 15, 2018 | Opinion
In light of the lawsuit challenging Harvard’s affirmative action policies, claiming that the university discriminates against Asian-American applicants, novelist Lisa Ko notes that “the model-minority myth [has been] leveraged by both whites and Asians to...
by lindaoppenheim | Sep 7, 2018 | Opinion
In the same week that Nike released a new ad narrated by Colin Kaepernick and some offended fans burned their Nike gear, Jeré Longman’s essay draws a parallel between the raised fists of athletes Tommie Smith and John Carlos during the 1969 Olympics to protest...
by lindaoppenheim | Aug 17, 2018 | Opinion
Accolades have been pouring forth since the announcement of Aretha Franklin’s death on August 16, 2018. Farah Jasmine Griffin wrote in The Nation about Franklin’s support for Angela Davis, when she was arrested in 1970. She also wrote the following:...
by lindaoppenheim | Jul 31, 2018 | Opinion
Afsheen Shamsi’s guest column in the Star Ledger (July 30, 2018) addresses the racist commentary by radio hosts about New Jersey Attorney General Gurbir S. Grewal. A former Not in Our Town Princeton board member and current member of the Princeton Civil Rights...
by lindaoppenheim | Jul 30, 2018 | Opinion
Referencing the work of historians Elsa Barkley Brown, Lori Ginzberg and Rosalyn Terborg-Penn, Brent Staples cites numerous examples of the leaders of the suffragette movement, women like Elizabeth Cady Stanton and Susan B. Anthony, not only ignoring the interests of...
