by lindaoppenheim | Sep 13, 2017 | Events
The Uncomfortable Truth: Racism, Inequality, and Poverty in New Jersey Tuesday, September 19th 4:00-6:00 pm Trinity Cathedral, 801 W. State Street, Trenton, NJ (there is parking behind the cathedral and on the street) The Uncomfortable Truth is an important new...
by lindaoppenheim | Nov 6, 2014 | Article
Reed Jordan of the Urban Institute reports on the high degree of exposure of African Americans to poverty, the result of centuries of discriminatory housing practices. One result is a concentration of black students in high poverty schools. He says, “The...
by lindaoppenheim | Oct 9, 2014 | Events
On October 8, Rev. Dr. Jamie Washington led a session on class at the Carl Fields Center at Princeton. He handed out an exercise, similar to Peggy MacIntosh’s white privilege list, which was developed by Patrick J. Ashton and adapted by Ruby K. Payne’s...