by lindaoppenheim | Jan 2, 2016 | Video
This video illustrates how well-intended white people can cause offense.
by lindaoppenheim | Jan 2, 2016 | Opinion
Selected as the best essay of 2015 by Salon.com, Priscilla Ward’s piece describes the daily adjustments she needs to make to live in a majority white world and how they affect her.
by lindaoppenheim | Dec 7, 2015 | Article, Poll
The article in MyCentralJersey.com states findings of a recent Kaiser/CNN poll: “New findings in a poll released by CNN and the Kaiser Family Foundation show that 49 percent of Americans believe racism is “a big problem.” That figure is up from 2011, when just...
by lindaoppenheim | Nov 17, 2015 | Events
Brown President Emerita Simmons will give lecture Wednesday, Nov. 18, 2015, 7:30 p.m. · McCormick Hall, Room 101 Brown University President Emerita Ruth Simmons will give the lecture “Confronting a Tainted Legacy: Slavery and Justice at Brown University,”...
by lindaoppenheim | Nov 9, 2015 | Opinion
Peniel E. Joseph, professor and founding director of the Center for the Study of Race and Democracy, the Lyndon B. Johnson School of Public Affairs at the University of Texas at Austin, comments on recent racist incidents and student activist responses at University...