by lindaoppenheim | Sep 26, 2017 | Opinion
Ameer Hasan Loggins references earlier silent Black protests, namely the Negro Silent Protest Parade on July 28, 1917, when thousands of Black children, women, and men brought national attention to the three day reign of terror in East Saint Louis when white mobs...
by lindaoppenheim | Aug 12, 2017 | Opinion
The author of this blog posted images from the white nationalist march in Charlottesville, Virginia last night protesting the removal of a Confederate statue. She writes “Imagine for just one second that these protestors were black. . . . This is a country...
by lindaoppenheim | Apr 27, 2017 | News
Two dozen students at The College of New Jersey held a sit-in next door to President R. Barbara Gitenstein’s office on Wednesday afternoon protesting the college’s disengagement from Trenton and pointing to two main issues: renaming Loser Hall and reconsidering...
by lindaoppenheim | Mar 24, 2017 | Exhibit, interview, Uncategorized
“When does art cross into appropriation and exploitation? Baruti Kopano, an associate professor at Morgan State University and co-editor of “Soul Thieves: The Appropriation and Misrepresentation of African American Popular Culture,” weighs in on that...
by lindaoppenheim | Feb 22, 2017 | Article
A special report in Yes! magazine describes efforts by seven Native American groups to preserve their water and sacred sites.