T.A.P. Festival Coordinator Tanya Passmore, Rev. Phil Turner and playwright Aaron Wright,
Bravo to the Bethany Baptist Church’s T.A.P. Festival for bringing Aaron Wright and his play A Teenage Love for a Syracuse debut on Friday.
Artensa Johnson sings Dear Love before intermission
The play, which is part-drama, part-comedy, part-musical, features high school student (actors) and deals with social issues not often seen on the stage for a youth audience.
Harron Thomas and Domonique Aviles during a scene of Teenage Love
Wright and the students live in Pennsylvania and Delaware.
Shanaya Day-Merkerson and Carlos Oyola on stage for A Teenage Love
India, the Princess of Salsa, came to Syracuse University Friday and her powerful vocals and soulful orchestra turned the Goldstein Auditorium into a dance hall for a few hours. The event was sponsored by La L.U.C.H.A. and Sigma Upsilon.
“The best way to judge the importance of Lloyd’s role may be to look at it through the prism of Syracuse, a then prosperous Upstate New York industrial city…that had a wild erratic history involving blacks and elite athletics.”
Sean Kirst, Moonfixer: The Basketball Journey of Earl Lloyd
NBA Hall of Famer Earl Lloyd visits with Aaron Allen at the War Memorial in 2000.
Syracuse University professor Boyce Watkins wrote a piece today on the HuffingtonPost about Don Cornelius that shows what can happen when innovation is your only option.
