Tamara Nopper News Today

The New York Times handed over its popular The Morning daily newsletter on January 18 to new hire German Lopez, formerly of Vox. His debut edition of the data-driven newsletter (usually helmed by David Leonhardt) was headlined “Examining the Spike in Murders.”As criminal justice activist and expert ...

Critics of Nicole Thomas-Kennedy will invoke a rise in crime to thwart her transformative candidacy. Don’t buy it.

The recent show of solidarity among Black and Asian American activists belies a fraught history. Can the communities now work side by side? Stephanie Sy explores the question with Tamara Nopper, a sociologist at New York University’s Center for Critical Race and Digital Studies, and Brenda Stevenson, a history and African American studies professor at the University of California, Los Angeles.

‘Understanding Numeracy’ panel examines the roles of data literacy in political participation ‘Understanding Numeracy’ panel examines the roles of data literacy in political participation Holly Qu / Screenshot from Zoom Panelists Megan Townsend, Chantilly Jaggernauth, Tamara Nopper, and Lindsay Piechnik discuss the role of data literacy in our lives with moderator Amanda Makulec. By Holly Qu | March 12, 2021, 1:47 AM We live in a data-driven society where everything can be broken ...

In the wake of the uprisings following the highly publicized murder of George Floyd, new attention has been paid to campaigns to defund and abolish police and policing, and imagine new ways of existing in a world where safety, justice and healing can — and should — exist independently of the carceral state. In this atmosphere of heightened excitement about abolition, Mariame Kaba has delivered the timely collection We Do This ‘Til We Free Us. A perennial organizer and prison industrial c...