Not In Our Town Princeton
Standing together for racial justice and inclusive communities
Archives
The Consequences of Forgetting By Keeanga-Yamahtta Taylor
Denial that slavery was absolutely foundational to the birth and early development of the United States explains the lack of a “national monument, memorial, or official recognition of the institution” and resistance to reparations, Dr. Keeanga-Yamahtta Taylor, Princeton University Assistant…
Read MoreThe Genres of Slavery, April 24, 2019
Yogita Goyal, Associate Professor of English and African American Studies, UCLA will speak on Wednesday, April 24 at 4:30 pm on the Princeton University campus, Chancellor Green 103.
Read MoreGeorgetown students vote overwhelming in favor of $27 fee for slavery reparations
If you ask yourself “How can I contribute to reparations for slavery, Jim Crow, mass incarceration, etc.?”, look to these Georgetown University students for an example and listen to the counter-proposal by William A. Darity, Jr., leading scholar on reparations. …
Read MoreLost Souls Project fundraiser, May 22, 2019
The inaugural fundraiser with the goal of building a public memorial to the 177+ African Americans who were sold into permanent slavery in 1818 by a corrupt Middlesex County judge who resided in East Brunswick. Four ships sailed holding both…
Read MoreSlavery in the North: Forgetting History and Recovering Memory, April 12, 2019
Marc Ross, Professor Emeritus at Bryn Mawr College, will discuss his new book, Slavery in the North: Forgetting History and Recovering Memory, that explores the history of Northern enslavement and its new emergence in public history. April 12, 7 to 9 pm,…
Read More
Recent Comments