Op-Led: Virtual Murder – Homophobia, Social Media & the Death of Tyler Clementi
BY Led Black (@Led_Black) Those were the last words the world would hear from Tyler Clementi. The terrified and tormented man-child, who ended his short and promising life by leaping to his death from...
View ArticleWNYC & The Apollo present Dreams for NYC Inspired by MLK
WNYC’s Annual Martin Luther King Jr. Day Celebration goes uptown to the historic Apollo Theater Sunday, January 19, 2014 at 3 pm. Presented as part of the Apollo Uptown Hall series, this year’s event...
View ArticleBlack History Month In Brief: The Meaning of Freedom
BY A J Sidransky (@AJSidransky) I have had the distinct pleasure to meet and speak with Athelstein Sullivan Parrish known to her friends and family as “Mama T” who will be 100 years old this month and...
View ArticleBlack History Month In Brief: Power Lunch
BY A J Sidransky (@AJSidransky) In 1967 NYC schools were desegregated. In those years that meant black kids were bussed to an all white school, not the other way around. One of these kids was assigned...
View Article1/17/16: Race and Privilege: Exploring MLK’s Two Americas
A solid line of state troopers stands shoulder to shoulder on steps of Alabam?s State Capitol at Montgomery on March 25, 1965 barring Dr. Martin Luther King, leader of the civil rights marchers, from...
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