The Onondaga Cup and Lakefest returned to Onondaga Lake this weekend.
Posts Tagged ‘Race’
Crew-tastic
Saturday, July 22nd, 2017The Doctor Will See You Now (and prescribe a new paradigm)
Friday, September 2nd, 2016
TV host, author and public intellectual and Morehouse professor Marc Lamont Hill gave the keynote for yesterdays Race in Our Communities Forum at Syracuse University.
Dr. Marc Lamont Hill, social justice warrior and host of “VH1 Live,” came to Syracuse loaded for bear yesterday, but he mixed in some humorous mixed metaphors to make the medicine go down easy. He talked passionately about the need for equitable justice under the law and thinking outside the imperfect system that currently exists (in cities and on campuses).
Hill asked the crowd at the Schine Student Center imagine a freedom dream,a world where healing and rehabilitation follow justice, and where we readily identify, and eventually diminish state violence propagated against vulnerable groups, stereotypes and marginalized people.
After Hill’s keynote there was a panel discussion, which included Keith J. Bybee, Ph.D., Tony Callisto,Bea González, Benjamin Jealous and Jordan Shelby West. The moderator was Dr. Keith Alford of SU’s Falk College.
Lean In-and-Out: Follow A Leader
Friday, March 6th, 2015“I am a storyteller, that is what I do.”
-Natalie Daise
Natalie Daise as Harriet Tubman (at the Community Folk Art Center).
Long before there was Sheryl Sandberg, Mayor Miner, County Executive Mahoney, or other female CEOs, we had Harriet Tubman. Remember the abolitionist/nurse/spy/Underground Railroad conductor spent her latter days in nearby Auburn, NY. We feel the leadership strategies that solidified her reputation deserve further examination.
Last night we watched actress Natalie Daise slowly transform into Harriet Tubman during a one-woman show at the Community Folk Art Center (CFAC). We learned several facts during the performance, including the fact that Tubman had a close relationship with John Brown, and was scheduled to be at Harper’s Ferry for the raid. Also Tubman’s original name was Araminta Ross.
Earlier in the week the show played at SUNY Oswego.
Daise, who originally got the theater bug while at Nottingham High School, perfectly captured Tubman in costume, idiom and song during the 1 hour-show.
It has been a while since we visited the Harriet Tubman Home, but we suggest that the newly designated National Park location capture Daise’s work in audio or video and preserve it as part of a permanent educational collection/display.
Happy Women’s History Month.