by lindaoppenheim | Aug 27, 2015 | Video
Jay Smooth (host of New York’s longest running hip-hop radio show, the Underground Railroad on WBAI 99.5 FM in NY, and an acclaimed commentator on politics and culture) makes some great points about getting past the challenges of discussing race and race-related...
by lindaoppenheim | Aug 19, 2015 | Opinion
Earlier this week, Kirsten West Savali published a thoughtful and wrenching account of what it is like for her to write columns on race and racism from her hometown in Mississippi. She says, “I write so I can live. I write so black people can see their pain,...
by lindaoppenheim | Aug 18, 2015 | Video
The answer is in this AJ video:
by lindaoppenheim | Jul 24, 2015 | Opinion
Attiya Latif, a Jefferson Scholar at the University of Virginia, recently published an Open Letter to Allies in response to Sandra Bland’s death. We must work to combat the framework of oppression built into America’s society through awareness, through...
by lindaoppenheim | Jul 19, 2015 | Opinion
In her op ed piece (New York Times, Sunday, July 19, 2015,) Isabel Wilkerson, author of The Warmth of Other Suns, sees the removal of the Confederate flag and the publication of Harper Lee’s early manuscript Go Set a Watchman, in which the bigotry of an older...