by lindaoppenheim | May 3, 2017 | Article
Ruha Benjamin, leader in racial literacy, encourages white people to interrogate their white spaces. In this article, Leah Shafer supplies questions teachers in primarily white schools can use to frame the discussion.
by lindaoppenheim | May 2, 2017 | Article
Well before their teen years, the vast majority of children are well aware of prevailing biases, and most kids, of all racial stripes, have taken on their own. The EmbraceRace team developed guidelines to answer parents’ question “What can we do to shape...
by lindaoppenheim | Mar 9, 2017 | Article, Documents
According to Niraj Chokshi’s article in the New York Times, a “report from the National Registry of Exonerations . . . show[ed] that Black people convicted of murder or sexual assault are significantly more likely than their white counterparts to be later...
by lindaoppenheim | Sep 23, 2016 | Speech
In a recent talk, John Metta explained, “Why do Black people think that everything is about race?” “Being normal makes everything else ‘abnormal.’ Damn near everything that Black people do is already outside the white norm. . . . Why do...
