Raul Pinet, Jr. vigil at the Justice Center, Downtown Syracuse
Barrie Gewanter speaks to the crowd at the Raul Pinet, Jr. vigil at the Justice Center.
Archive for the ‘Media’ Category
Search for Justice
Saturday, May 12th, 2012VP Chronicles
Thursday, April 5th, 2012Last night Chris Godsick and Jay Feather, two SU grads-turned Hollywood insiders, attended an advanced showing of their series “VEEP, ” starring Julia Louis-Dreyfus (as a Vice President).
Here they talk with Professor Robert Thompson about the freedom of working with HBO.
VP Chronicles from Syracuse in Focus on Vimeo.
Eight is never enough
Saturday, March 24th, 2012
Syracuse MC World Be Free performs the SU Men’s Basketball theme song on the eve of the team’s Elite Eight game against Ohio State.
To the delight of a capacity crowd of students and members of the community, Brian Freeland, aka World Be Free, performed the SU theme song last night during a benefit concert that also included Cassidy and Fabolous at Goldstein Auditorium.
For one song Be Free shared the stage with soulful singer Erika Lovette. He also got a rousing response during a song called “Dear Music.”
World Be Free (left), his wife Aziza, and his manager Maestro
Rev. Joe
Thursday, March 22nd, 2012
Rev. Run speaks about race in Hip Hop at Syracuse University
Rev. Run, spoke last night at Syracuse University in a forum about race, religion and Hip Hop. He was joined by fellow panelists Hasan Stephens (aka Maestro) and Don Sawyer, III.
As an elder statesman in the culture, Run said his job was certainly not to criticize new voices in the genre. He pointed out that artists, like people, evolve and grow.
Hasan Stephens (aka Maestro) dialogues with Rev. Run about radio programming’s influence on popular taste during the forum.
Here is a sample of Run talking about his transition from Run to Rev and how he can’t be one without the other.
My Adidas: Rev. keeping it Run (rocking sneakers with the collar)
Mr. Smith comes to Syracuse
Friday, February 17th, 2012
Speaking Quite Frankly: Stephen A. Smith
Writer, TV personality and NBA insider Stephen A. Smith came to Syracuse University last night and schooled the students on the importance of building your work ethic as well as your personal brand.
Smith fielded dozens of questions ranging in topics from changing a major to the good bad and ugly of NBA players: Tim Duncan, Jeremy Lin, Kwame Brown and Allen Ivrerson.
He said being in college is a great place and time to pay your dues on the way to seeking any particular career path. “I’ve never taken less than 17 credit hours when I was in school…” he said. “…I also liked to party.”
Stephen A. Smith tells SU students to pay their dues.
Smith’s talk, which was partly motivational, but delivered in his trademark sarcasm and ribs, also touched on the the NCAA Tournament, TV revenue for sports, politics and the evolution of the black athlete.
According to Smith, too many fans over-celebrate contenders before they become champions.
Facts and the Stories We Tell
Friday, December 23rd, 2011“We develop the capacity to influence the stories we tell ourselves, so that they empower rather than undermine us.”
Tony Schwartz
Today I heard a wonderful story on NPR’s Tell Me More about an exhibit for the work of Charles “Teenie” Harris, a great visual story-teller. Thanks to some help from the Carnegie Museum of Art’s Tey Stiteler, I got to check out a photo of Albert Mills, who was the first African-American detective in Pittsburgh. Mills later retired to the Syracuse-area and I knew him from my previous job.
Here is a photo Stiteler found.
Generations of Art & Activism
Monday, December 12th, 2011
George Kilpatrick and Sherri Kilpatrick Duchenne at the Opening of “Child of the Universe” at CFAC
I got a chance to check out the inaugural show for mixed media artist and activist, George Kilpatrick, Sr. on Saturday. The show,held at the Community Folk Art Center (CFAC), was attended by community members, artists, as well as the Kilpatrick family.
Media personality George Kilpatrick, Jr. opened the show by reading a poem his dad wrote called “The Artist.” George’s sister Sherri Kilpatrick Duchenne also told a story about how her dad taught the family to harness the power of the pen.
George Kilpatrick, III, a student studying at Howard Unviersity, representing third generation of the family, sang a soulful rendition of “Yesterday,” which reminded me a lot of the Donny Hathaway version.
Unplugged: George Kilpatrick, III, sings “Yesterday” by the Beatles
The show is on display for the rest of this week.
Griot Vanessa Johnson presents George Kilpatrick, Jr. with a quilt
Comic View
Saturday, November 19th, 2011
D.L. Hughley
D.L. Hughley, Dean Edwards and SU Alum Tyler Gilden brought a humorous spin on current events, campus life and politics last week at Goldstein Auditorium during the Phi Beta Sigma and Omega Phi Beta show last week. Opening the show was SU student Demarcus Woods.
Dean Edwards as Jay-Z
Crowd favorites included a Denzel, Tracy Morgan and Jay Z impression by Dean Edwards, D.L. Hughley’s mistaking SU alum Floyd Little for Herman Cain, and Gildin’s take on frat parties.
Tyler Gildin
Demarcus Woods, the Country Comic
D.L. Hughley tries to make a love connection between students at Syracuse Unviersity
Community Media Adocate
Friday, November 4th, 2011
Amy Goodman, journalist
Journalist Amy Goodman spoke at Syracuse Unviersity last night as a guest of the Syracuse Peace Council and the Tully Center for Free Speech. Her show Democracy Now! was broadcast today from the studios of WCNY.
Goodman says her show covers Movements (such as Occupy Wall Street) because Movements have the makings of power.
Syracuse Peace Council’s Andy Mager
Doing the right thing
Friday, September 30th, 2011
Actor, producer, director, choreographer and activist Rosie Perez speaks at the SWCC
Bravo to Rosie Perez who continues to use her platform as a celebrity to bring HIV/AIDS awareness across the country. She spoke last night during a program at the Southwest Community Center for Fighting AIDS/HIV thru Case Management, Education and Support (F.A.C.E.S.).