by lindaoppenheim | Nov 26, 2017 | Opinion, Truth and Reconciliation
How to recognize how deeply white supremacy is ingrained in ourselves and our institutions and how difficult it is to create a suitable commemoration of those who suffered the greatest impact is evident in this reflection about a memorial on the University of North...
by lindaoppenheim | Nov 7, 2017 | Documents, Events, Truth and Reconciliation, Website
A New York Times article describes the Princeton & Slavery Project which began in 2013 to explore the University’s ties to slavery. Many events related to the research will take place during the weekend of November 18 & 19, including seven brief plays...
by lindaoppenheim | Oct 9, 2017 | Article, Truth and Reconciliation, Website
Kriston Capps’ article in the Atlantic describes Bryan Stevenson’s Equal Justice Initiative’s memorial due to open in 2018, “the first such memorial in the U.S., and, its founders hope, it will show how lynchings of black people were essential...
by lindaoppenheim | Sep 17, 2017 | News, Truth and Reconciliation
Rutgers University has renamed its College Avenue Apartments to honor Sojourner Truth, leading abolitionist and advocate for women’s rights. Kilmer Library on Rutgers-New Brunswick’s Livingston Campus in Piscataway has been renamed the James Dickson Carr Library...
by lindaoppenheim | Sep 11, 2017 | Opinion, Truth and Reconciliation
Historian Tiya Miles reminds us “Our history of human bondage and white supremacy is not restricted to the South . . . . It penetrated every corner of this country, materially, economically and ideologically, and the unjust campaign to preserve it is embedded in...
by lindaoppenheim | Sep 10, 2017 | Article, Truth and Reconciliation
Ali Cobby Eckermann, one of Australia’s ‘Stolen Generation,’ the children who were taken from their indigenous birth parents and adopted into other families, will receive Yale University’s Windham-Campbell prize for poetry. Noting that there...
