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WATCH LIVE – The 1619 Project with Nikole Hannah-Jones, November 2, 2019
YWCA Princeton (59 Paul Robeson Place) will be streaming Nikole Hannah-Jones live on the 1619 Project and a Panel on the Role of Slavery in America and New Jersey in Bramwell House living room on Saturday, November 2 at 7…
Read MoreNew Jersey Black Issues Convention Annual Legislative Conference, May 23, 2019
This free event, sponsored by New Jersey Black Issues Convention, Thursday, May 23, 9 am to 2:30 pm, brings to the forefront issues that are affecting African-Americans in the State of New Jersey and come together to bring progress to…
Read MoreStudents weigh in on how to fix New Jersey’s school segregation problem
New Jersey is ranked the sixth-most-segregated state in the nation for black students, and seventh for Latino students. High school students from Ridgewood, Leonia, Cliffside Park and New Milford recently convened to propose solutions to the racial divisions in New…
Read MoreBlack travelers had every reason to fear N.J., but you wouldn’t know it from ‘Green Book.’
Kathleen O’Brien rightly notes the limitations of the Oscar-nominated movie Green Book, which tells the story of the friendship between pianist Dr. Don Shirley and his chauffeur Tony Lip and depicts segregation in accommodations in the South in the 1950s. …
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