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Tuesday, February 19th, 2013
SU Graduate Stephen Barton, outreach assistant for Mayors Against Illegal Guns in NYC, and a victim of the Aurora Co. theater shooting, was the keynote speaker for tonight’s Gun and America: Joining the Conversation Forum. The event was held at Hendricks Chapel.
Helen Hudson, Syracuse Common Councilor (At Large) and past president of Mothers Against Gun Violence, was one of the participants for tonight’s forum. She talked about local gun violence statistics and the effects gun violence has on families.
Tags:Aurora Shooting, Gun Safety, Guns and America, Helen Hudson, Mayors Against Gun Violence, Mothers Against Gun Violence, NRA, Politics, Syracuse University
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Sunday, January 27th, 2013
Professor, Martial Arts Champion and Entrepreneur El-Java Abdul-Qadir gave the keynote address and discussed sacrifice, education and character as some of the keys to build leadership for the next generation.
Bomba y Plena Dance Troup from La Casita
Syracuse University Break Dance team
Spoken word artists, including Signature MiMi, from the Verbal Blend Poetry Program at Syracuse University, also participated.
Yesterday’s Dream, Tomorrow’s Promise
Dance Theater of Syracuse performs “Even Time Takes Time.”
Black Celestial Choral Ensemble (BCCE)
Tags:2013, BCCE, Black Celestial Choral Ensemble of Syracuse University, Celebration, Dance, Dance Theater of Syracuse, Dr. Martin Luther King, El Java Qadir, Frazier K-8 School, Music, SCSD, Signature MiMi, SU Breakdance, Syracuse
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Tuesday, November 6th, 2012
Election Day, Teall Avenue
Thanks to great triage at the door, our voting experience was relatively quick and easy. Here’s a look at a South Florida ballot, where lines and wait times have been long.
Tags:2012, Election, voters
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Monday, October 15th, 2012
Author Kathleen Kennedy Townsend, the daughter of the late Sen. Robert Kennedy speaks at Syracuse University’s inaugural Joseph and Amelia Borgognoni Lecture in Catholic Theology and Religion in Society. She discussed the slow rate of change coming to the Catholic Church. She also advocated that it’s wrong to legislate something that you can’t get people to do morally. She also warned against the dangers of self-righteousness (in the Church).
Townsend, who wrote Failing America’s Faithful: How Today’s Churches are Mixing God with Politics and Losing Their Way, discussed the slow rate of change coming to the Catholic Church. She also warned against the dangers of self-righteousness (in the Church).
“It’s wrong to legislate something that you can’t get people to do morally,” she said.
Tags:2012, Joseph and Amelia Borgognoni Lecture in Catholic Theology and Religion in Society, Kathleen Kennedy Townsend, Religion, Syracuse University
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Tuesday, October 9th, 2012
The Past is Not Past: The Continuing Quest for Racial Justice and Peace panel at was held before a capacity crowd at Syracuse University’s Newhouse III this morning (pictured l to r: Janis McDonald, Andrew Young, Linda Carty, Martin Luther King, III, and moderator Paula Johnson).
SU’s Linda Carty (Dept of African American Studies) cited several statistics and said there are several obstacles to the notion of peace, including: substandard education, poverty, and the misapplication of justice that spawned the prison industrial complex.
Former Ambassador Andrew Young said freedom is a constant struggle. He also advised students not to get mad, but to get smart.
SU alum and SIF Advisory Board Member John Giles, Jr. (pictured in the audience near event co-organizer Scott McDowell of SU-NYC and media personality George Kilpatrick) dialouges with the panel about coalition building as it relates to seeking justice in the modern day Civil Rights Movement.
Martin Luther King, III, the son of the legendary civil rights leader, said true justice is justice across the board (for everyone).
Tags:2012, advisory board, Andrew Young, Cold Case Justice Initiative, Janis McDonald, Law, Linda Carty, Martin Luther King III, Newhouse School of Public Communications, Paula Johnson, Syracuse University, The Past is Not Past: The Continuing Quest for Racial Justice and Peace
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Saturday, August 18th, 2012
George Kilpatrick reads the words of Harriet Tubman at the Skaneateles Festival, not far from a stop on the Underground Railroad.
As part of the Skaneateles Festival’s “Not Your Mother’s Chamber Music Concert,” baritone Tony Cook sang several Civil War-era songs and George Kilpatrick read speeches by Frederick Douglass, Beethoven and Harriet Tubman. Below listen to a clip of GK reading a speech by Abraham Lincoln.
Tags:2012, George Kilpatrick, Harriet Tubman, Skaneateles Festival, Spoken Word, Underground Railroad
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