by lindaoppenheim | Mar 26, 2015 | Documents, Opinion
The March 26, 2015 New York Times editorial discusses the recently released Department of Justice report about Philadelphia police practices and urges implementation of the recommendations. Charles Blow’s column about the same report focuses on “which of...
by lindaoppenheim | Mar 5, 2015 | Article, Documents
The federal Department of Justice issued a report on March 4, 2015 of findings from its investigation of the Ferguson, MO police department and the shooting of Michael Brown. It cleared Darren Wilson, the white officer who shot Michael Brown, of civil rights...
by lindaoppenheim | Jan 24, 2015 | Review
According to Jennifer Gonnerman’s review in the New York Times Sunday Book Review (January 21, 2015), Jill Leovy, a reporter for the Los Angeles Times “argues that as a nation we have grown far too accepting of our high rate of homicide . . . in large part...
by lindaoppenheim | Dec 30, 2014 | Continuing Conversations, The New Jim Crow
Atkinson, a senior staff attorney at the Southern Coalition for Social Justice, speaks with Left of Black host and Professor of Black Popular Culture in the Department of African and African-American Studies at Duke University, Mark Anthony Neal, about mass...
by lindaoppenheim | Dec 4, 2014 | The New Jim Crow
Former New Jersey Governor Jim McGreevey will speak at a panel on The Role of Civil Society in Creating a More Effective Criminal Justice System on Monday, December 8, 4:30 p.m., Princeton University’s McCosh Hall. A documentary on McGreevey’s prison...
