by lindaoppenheim | Feb 22, 2018 | Events, Video
On Sunday, February 25, 4-6:30 pm at the ACME Screening Room, 25 S. Union St., Lambertville, NJ, “Terror and Triumph,” the 4th episode of “The Rise and Fall of Jim Crow,” will be screened. It examines the surge of black activism that took...
by lindaoppenheim | Jan 8, 2018 | Review
In her speech at the 2018 Golden Globes Award Ceremony, Oprah Winfrey referenced Recy Taylor. In this review, Soraya Nadia McDonald relates Taylor’s story and that of other women, drawn from the book At the Dark End of the Street: Black Women, Rape, and...
by lindaoppenheim | Nov 25, 2017 | Video
“Rosenwald,” by Aviva Kempner, is a documentary about how Chicago philanthropist Julius Rosenwald, the son of an immigrant peddler who rose to head Sears, partnered with Booker T. Washington to build 5,400 Southern schools in African American communities...
by lindaoppenheim | Nov 21, 2017 | Opinion
Yale historian Glenda Elizabeth Gilmore explains the similarity between Colin Kaepernick’s protest and that of Rosa Parks and the Greensboro lunch counter sit-ins, refuting the commonly held belief that the latter two “materialized from an...
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...