by lindaoppenheim | Aug 4, 2018 | Article
A hotel clerk calls a black guest a “monkey.” A white guest asks a black woman and her daughter if they bathed before swimming in the hotel pool. Elaine Glusac reports on incidents of racial bias like these that African Americans encounter while...
by lindaoppenheim | Jul 16, 2018 | Article
Philadelphia Inquirer columnist Mike Newall describes the Healers, the nine young black men completing “a [nine week] Drexel University . . . program that teaches young black men, all victims of trauma, to work through their own experience and to treat it in...
by lindaoppenheim | Jun 9, 2018 | Opinion
Carol Anderson, Charles Howard Candler professor of African American studies at Emory University, gives numerous examples of black voter suppression in the 21st century. Click here to read the complete essay.
by lindaoppenheim | Apr 25, 2018 | Events, The New Jim Crow
Caged by the New Jersey Prison Cooperative, directed by Jerrell L. Henderson May 3 – May 20, 2018 Tickets $13 – $38. Student, senior, and group discounts available. Caged follows a Black family’s struggle to survive the generational cycle of mass...
by lindaoppenheim | Mar 31, 2018 | Article
“Including black students in the gun violence conversation means broadening the topic from mass shootings to police-involved shootings, said Tifanny Burks, a community organizer with Black Lives Matter Alliance Broward.” To read Alex Harris’...