Archive for the ‘Media’ Category
Tuesday, August 31st, 2010
Vigil for victims of Hurricane Katrina at Syracuse University
Members of the Syracuse University community held an impromptu program for the victims of Hurricane Katrina last night in Hendricks Chapel. Students and members shared experiences about evacuating or returning to clean up the Gulf Region. This week marks the five year anniversary of the storm.
Second only to the Spike Lee’s Katrina films (and interviews), I found the best testimony about the Hurricane and immediate aftermath was given by former Syracuse television executive Gary Wordlaw in 2006.
Members of Delta Sigma Theta discuss their sorority's rebuilding efforts
Tags: 2010, C. Ray Nagin, CSPAN, god willing and the creek don't rise, Hendricks Chapel, Hurricane Katrina, Kathleen Blanco, Mississippi, National Hurricane Center, New Orleans, Spike Lee, Syracuse University, US NOAA
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Tuesday, April 13th, 2010
Shelly Griffin: Cent$ + Sense-Ability
A statistic was cited during the recent Cent$ + Sense-Ability Fashion Show at The Newhouse School of Public Communications last week that the average American discards about 68 lbs of clothing and textiles each year.
In an effort to show that fashion too can ride the current wave of sustainability, this year’s annual fashion show for the Fashion Communication Milestone featured recycled materials, clothing, and material found in the trash. A host of material was donated by the Rescue Mission. The student designs promoted “Fashion in a Recession.”
A few of the evenings highlights included: hairstyles featuring soda cans as well as, Tina Fey impersonator and Newhouse Program Coordinator Shelly Griffin (pictured above).
Michele Palotta, Junior at Syracuse University
Tags: 2010, Carla Lloyd, Cent$ + Sense-Ability, Dellplain Hall, Education, Fashion, Fashion Communications Milestone, Jeff Mayer, Karen Bakee, Michele Palotta, Newhouse School of Public Communications, Recycle, Sara Palin, Shelly Griffin, SUNY-ESF, Sustainability, Syracuse Rescue Mission, Tina Fey, Todd Conover, VPA
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Friday, April 9th, 2010
Author and speaker Seth Godin gave me a free book in 2004, and since that time he’s sold many more books (to me and to other people).
Tags: 2010, Books, Business, Free Prize Inside, Linchpin, Personal MBA, Seth Godin, Tribes
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Thursday, April 8th, 2010
- Former Syracuse University Lacrosse Player and Coach Roy Simmons, Jr.
Turtle Clan Faithkeeper Oren Lyons, who was an all-American Lacrosse goalkeeper at Syracuse University, along with Professor Philip Arnold, former SU lacrosse/football star (and NFL player) Jim Ridlon and former SU lacrosse coach Roy Simmons, Jr. discussed the history, progression and sportsmanship of lacrosse earlier this week at Syracuse Stage.
They appeared as part of the Onondaga Land Rights & Our Common Future Educational series coordinated by Neighbors of the Onondaga Nation. Lyons talked about classic battle with Mohawk players and playing with broken ribs.
Coach Simmons insisted that lacrosse is a gentleman’s game, not a savage game and talked about the evolution of the lacrosse stick from being made with wood and animal gut to the more modern kevlar and nylon version.
Lacrosse Discussion: Lyons, Arnold, Simmons and Ridlon
Tags: 2010, All-American Lacrosse Goalie, Dallas Cowboys, Faithkeeper Oren Lyons, Iroquois Confederacy, Jim Ridlon, Lacrosse, NCAA Championship, NCAA Final Four, NOON, Onondaga Land Rights & Our Common Future, Onondaga Nation, Philip Arnold, Roy Simmons, Syracuse Peace Council, Syracuse Stage, Syracuse University, Syracuse University Football, Tewaarton Spirit Award, Turtle Clan
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Friday, April 2nd, 2010
Your Brain Being Washed
Media personality and executive George Kilpatrick sent me a link to his recent interview with author Tom Burrell.
Burrell is author of a book about the myth of black inferiority called Brainwashed. In the book Burrell, an award-winning ad exec, tackles subjects such as Neo-Buffoonery, King James v. King Kong, Oscar- nominated films such as Precious, Fratricide, Hip Hop videos, and the cumulative effect of negative images.
To hear Burrell’s conversation on NIFTN, click here.
Tags: 2010, Books, Brainwashed, George Kilpatrick, King James v King Kong, New Inspiration for the Nation, Oscars, Precious, Stereotypes, Stop the Brainwash, The Blind Side, Tom Burell, Vogue Magazine
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Tuesday, March 30th, 2010
Columnist Cynthia Tucker (right) with SU's Newhouse School Dean Lorraine Branham
Pulitzer Prize-winning columnist
Cynthia Tucker shared her views, opinons and forcasts for the next stage of journalism during a talk at Syracuse University’s Newhouse School last night. She was joined on stage by Newhouse
Dean Lorraine Branham during the conversation.
Tags: 2010, AJC, Cynthia Tucker, Dean Lorraine Branham, Education, Journalism, Newhouse School of Public Communications, Pulitzer Prize, Syracuse University
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Tuesday, March 23rd, 2010
Last week C-SPAN uploaded more than 20 years of video (entire video library archive) to the web.
One of my all-time favorite shows features writer and musician James McBride, whose multiple talents make him an effective story-teller.
McBride visited the Rosamond Gifford Lecture Series in the late 1990s.
Tags: 2010, Book TV, Books, C-SPAN archives, Friends of the Central Library, James McBride, Jazz, Music, Onondaga Public Library, Rosamond Gifford Lecture Series, The Color of Water
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Tuesday, March 16th, 2010
A few SIF photographs can be seen on the Northeast Jazz and Wine Festival site (CNY Jazz Central). To see the photographs, click here.
Tags: 2010, Brubeck Institute Jazz Quintet, Clinton Square, CNY Jazz Arts Foundation, CNY Jazz Central, CNYJAF, Donald Harrison Jr., Jazz Central, Jazz Central Late Night Jazz Jam, Jazz in the Square, Joe Magnarelli, John Stetch Trio, Larry Luttinger, Marion Meadows, Music, Nicole Henry, Northeast Jazz & Wine Festival, Sen. John DeFransicso, Syracuse, Syracuse Jazz Photos
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Tuesday, March 9th, 2010
Emil Wilbekin, managing editor, Essence.com
Essence.com Managing Editor Emil Wilbekin says that the future of journalism will be more like a conversation than the typical dictating monologue that’s been the better part of the history magazines and newspapers.
Wilbekin says a lot of the change will be driven by technology.
He encouraged students at Syracuse University’s Newhouse School of Public Communications to take their interests and use digital media to change the game. But he added that the standard journalistic rules and standards will still apply.
Wilbekin was a founding editor at VIBE and recently headed Giant Magazine before coming to Essence.com in June. You can see his recent blog posts and Essence coverage of Black Women in Hollywood here.
The talk was sponsored by Syracuse University’s Magazine Department and the Black Communications Society.
Tags: 2010, Black Communications Society, Black Women in Hollywood, Emil Wilbekin, Essence Magazine, Essence.com, Giant Magazine, Newhouse, Photojournalism, Syracuse University
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Monday, March 1st, 2010
Steve Perry, Principal
For too long the education system has fostered schools that are failing and according to Steve Perry, principal and education activist, failure is no longer an option.
“We can’t call a school a school if it doesn’t educate,” he says. “We have to create schools that are designed to be successful.”
Perry gave a lecture Saturday at Bethany Baptist Church that was sponsored by the Say Yes to Education program. He heads Hartford Prep (CT) and was featured on the CNN series Black in America 2 with Soledad O’Brien. Perry has also been interviewed often by New Inspiration for the Nation’s George Kilpatrick.
For Perry education is a calling, not just a profession. He drives several of his students to school each day and says 100% of the students at Capital Prep go on to college.
Perry says that he has no problem getting this across to his staff, and because you have a degree doesn’t mean you are a teacher. “I’ve fired some great people, they just weren’t good teachers,” he said.
Citing the McKinesey Report, Perry said that a child without an education will be a challenge for society. He said parents, teachers and entire community’s share responsibility for schools that don’t work.
“I love kids too much to care about grown people’s feelings.”
Tags: 2010, Bethany Baptist Church, CNN's Black in America 2, Education, George Kilpatrick, Hartford Capital Prep, New Inspiration for the Nation, Rev. Phil Turner, Say Yes to Education, SCSD, Soledad O'Brien, Steve Perry
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