by lindaoppenheim | Aug 24, 2015 | Video
Five black people pose questions about white privilege, appropriation and more. How would you answer them? From Buzzfeed.
by lindaoppenheim | Jun 4, 2015 | Documents
Librarians Nicole Pagowsky and Niamh Wallace at the University of Arizona created a guide to resources about the killing of Michael Brown and subsequent events in Ferguson, Missouri. In addition, they list sources on critical race theory, media coverage, and teaching...
by lindaoppenheim | May 26, 2015 | Annual Report, Article, Documents
Fed up with the media perpetuating damaging and destructive stereotypes of black men, artist EJ Brown created a photo project titled “The Mugshot Series,” which includes seven black-and-white images of young black men dressed in cap and gown holding plaques that...
by lindaoppenheim | May 17, 2015 | Opinion
[youtube https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OdSsBYO1oNI&w=560&h=315] This satire of coverage of news coverage turns the usual dynamic on its head… for more information, see the original Upworthy post, here. This kind of reflective re-visioning of mainstream...
by lindaoppenheim | Apr 19, 2015 | Article, Opinion
“Social protest forces us to see realities we would rather avoid, and blacks live in mortal fear for our lives in a manner that most whites don’t see or understand.” In a New York Times op ed, Michael Eric Dyson comments on media representation of the...
