America’s ‘Postracial’ Fantasy

Anna Holmes draws on her experience growing up biracial in America to discuss self-identification and other people’s perceptions.  For a fictionalized take on the subject, read Mat Johnson’s Loving Day.   How do you identify people you see?  Try PBS’...

Princeton: Yesterday and Today

Not In Our Town board member Shirley Satterfield, the acknowledged historian of the Princeton African American community, reminisces about the Witherspoon-Jackson neighborhood and the former “Colored Y,” now the Paul Robeson Center for the Arts which...

Freedom Summer Exhibit Moved to the Arts Council

The Freedom Summer exhibit, on loan from the Wisconsin Historical Society, has opened at the Arts Council of Princeton, Paul Robeson Center for the Arts, 102 Witherspoon Street, where it will be on display though Sunday, December 21. Hours: Sat 12/13:     9-5 Sun...