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Dear Friends, Family, Italophiles, Art and Architecture Lovers, Good People, I find myself for the past few months in the Tuscan countryside riding out what, on a good day, can feel like the end of the world (bad days have me traipsing through one circle or another of Dante's Inferno). In any case, if the …
Thursday, October 1st, 2020 at 5:00pm ET Jenny McPhee (NYU)in conversation withStephen Twilley (translator) andEdmund White (author)Franco Baldasso (Bard) New York Review Books Classics has recently published a new translation by Stephen Twilley of Curzio Malaparte’s Diary of a Foreigner in Paris, the journal in which the Italian writer and correspondent recounts his stay in the French capital after World War II. The translator …
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My great friend, the activist Anne Maguire, is part of the Coalition to honor black and indigenous activists who have organized a march and rally on July 4th in NYC. Here is the plan: "The world appears to be changing very quickly, but of course it isn’t. There are decades (centuries, really) of activism behind …
8. Donate to anti-white supremacy work such as your local Black Lives Matter Chapter, the National Council for Incarcerated and Formerly Incarcerated Women and Girls, the NAACP, Southern Poverty Law Center, United Negro College Fund, Black Youth Project 100, Color of Change, The Sentencing Project, Families against Mandatory Minimums, A New Way of Life, and Dream Defenders. Join some of these list-serves and take …
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“No one of us can be free until everyone is free.” -Maya Angelou This year, finally, I have informed myself about Juneteenth. Yes, I know, where have I been? But I am here now. Juneteenth, when the last of the enslaved black population in Galveston, Texas received word that they were officially free, should be …
7. Many companies have recruiting channels that are predominantly white. Work with your HR department to recruit Americans who are descendants of enslaved Africans. Recruiting from HBCUs is a good start. Work to put descendants of enslaved Africans already hired under supportive managers. #7 of the 75 Things White People Can Do For Racial Justice …
“If you have come here to help me you are wasting your time, but if you have come because your liberation is bound up with mine, then let us work together.” -- Lilla Watson, Australian Indigenous writer and activist Bronx Academy of Letters Community Poem #6. Work on ensuring that black educators are hired …
This is going to be fun and interesting. Family secrets will be revealed!!! If you already signed up for this, there was a glitch, and you will need register again here. See you there! The Princeton native authors talk about Martha McPhee's new book, “An Elegant Woman,” which is drawn from family history. "An …
Gordon Parks (1912-2006). Untitled. Harlem, NY. 1963 via The National Arts Club 5. If you or a friend or family member is an educator, watch or share this video of Neil deGrasse Tyson speaking about his experience as a black student telling people he wanted to be a scientist and astrophysicist. Tyson’s experience reminds me of …
June 1, 2020 Today, I write to you as a Black man and as President of Emerson College. There is no other way to write to you, given recent events. I didn’t sleep Friday night. Instead, I spent the night, like a moth drawn to a flame, looking again and again at …
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