by lindaoppenheim | Oct 18, 2016 | Opinion
Author of a forthcoming book, The Price for Their Pound of Flesh: The Value of the Enslaved from Womb to Grave in the Building of a Nation, Professor Daina Ramey Berry, was prompted to write about the “post-mortem consumption” of human body parts by the...
by lindaoppenheim | Oct 6, 2016 | Video
The Birth of a Nation Nate Parker | 1 hr 57 min | R IMDBReviews Starts Fri, Oct 7, 2016, The Garden Theatre, 160 Nassau St., Princeton, NJ 08542 Nate Parker’s film about the Nat Turner slave rebellion is one of the most talked about films of the year. Parker wrote,...
by lindaoppenheim | Oct 1, 2016 | Broadcast
In this NPR Weekend Edition, “Michael Twitty wants you to know where Southern food really comes from. And he wants the enslaved African-Americans who were part of its creation to get credit.”
by lindaoppenheim | Sep 22, 2016 | Events, Exhibit
In anticipation of the opening of the NMAAHC on Saturday, the New York Times produced a special section “I, Too, Sing America” (Thursday, September 22, 2016) including a description of the building, and interview with the architect, David Adjaye, and...
by lindaoppenheim | Sep 21, 2016 | interview
Mechelle Brown, program coordinator at the Greenwood Cultural Center in Tulsa, joins the radio program The Takeaway to examine the effects of the Tulsa Race Riot of 1921 several decades later, and how the ambivalence with which the riots are discussed and remembered...