City of Syracuse Director of Policy & Innovation Andrew Maxwell paints a stripe along S. Salina Street ahead of the St. Patrick’s Parade, which will be held later today.
Archive for the ‘Politics’ Category
Green Stripe
Saturday, March 12th, 2016Bloods of the Coast Guard
Tuesday, February 23rd, 2016
For African American History Month at the Veteran’s Hospital, Dr. Rick Wright gave a presentation from his book and highlighted the career of Capt. Bobby Wilks, the first African American aviator in the US Coast Guard.
After Dinner Conversation
Saturday, February 6th, 2016
Dr. Marc Lamont Hill spoke with the inflection of Dr. King, the fire of Malcolm X, and ended with the bravura of Dr. Michael Eric Dyson at the Carrier Dome on Sunday. Hear an excerpt from his speech below.
Pause
Tuesday, February 2nd, 2016
Between fiery rhetoric on the life of Dr. King and other civil rights giants, Dr. Marc Lamont Hill added just the right amount of whimsy during his talk at the Carrier Dome.
SOTC: The Best of Times/The Worst of Times
Friday, January 29th, 2016
Mayor Stephanie Miner gave the State of the City Address at the Southwest Community Center last night.
She may have gotten a shout-out from First Lady Michelle Obama at the U.S.
Conference of Mayors; she may have been selected to the prestigious Rodel Fellowhip Program (Aspen Institute), but last night Mayor Stephanie Miner had to focus on reality here in Syracuse, the city she leads, the city where she resides.
During her 2016 State of the City Address at the Southwest Community Center, she painted with broad strokes when citing the accomplishments of her administration, including new inspiring economic development projects. At the same time, she didn’t turn a blind eye to some of those unsavory details that color our current condition.
Mayor Miner even evoked the empathetic spirit of Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. as she reminded the bipartisan audience that true civic engagement occurs when all people are integrated into the success of a metropolis and inequality doesn’t lead to abandonment.
It’s never an easy job, but someone has to do it.
Throwback Thursday
Thursday, December 17th, 2015
Wells College (circa 2004)
Multi-Tasking
Monday, November 16th, 2015Activist DeRay Mckesson stopped in Syracuse to participate in the University’s Blacktivism Conference before heading back to the Mizzou Protests (University of Missouri).
Cultural Engagement
Monday, November 16th, 2015
This was maybe our favorite module during the Blacktivism Conference on Saturday. SU law student Ibrahim Lawton (above) gave strategies to prevent and resolve micro-aggression and cultural insensitivity in majority spaces. The interactive workshop offered pearls of wisdom for those in higher education or the corporate sector.
Week in Review
Sunday, November 15th, 2015
Educator-turned-activist DeRay Mckesson visited Syracuse University for the Blacktivism Conference. In the clip below, he talked about how he began in the movement.
