Princeton Digs Deep into Its Fraught Racial History
Posted on: Nov 06, 2017
The New York Times, 11/6/17
Princeton University has a long history connected to slavery, which has remained hidden until now.
Putting the Ghosts of Princeton’s Racial Past Onstage
Posted on: Nov 06, 2017
The New York Times, 11/6/17
The voices of enslaved people can be hard to hear in the archives. But they are front and center in the Princeton & Slavery Plays, a suite of seven 10-minute works that will have their premieres at the McCarter Theater on Nov. 18 and 19.
Slavery and the American University
Posted on: Feb 08, 2018
The New York Review of Books, 2/7/18
From their very beginnings, the American university and American slavery have been intertwined, but only recently are we beginning to understand how deeply.
Can Art Amend Princeton’s History of Slavery?
Posted on: Nov 10, 2017
The Atlantic, 11/9/17
A new sculpture project thoughtfully grapples with the university’s historical participation in slavery.
Association of Black Seminarians Demands Reparations
Posted on: Apr 06, 2019
The Daily Princetonian, 4/3/19
A group of students at the Princeton Theological Seminary is demanding that the institution pay reparations in response to a report it published last year, which details its historical connections to slavery.