Posts Tagged ‘History’

Officers and Gentlemen

Tuesday, February 21st, 2012

Dr. Roscoe Brown and Merriette Chance Pollard

Dr. Roscoe Brown and Merriette Chance Pollard

Check out a movie review for Red Tails by Phinesse Demps from Soul of Syracuse.  Red Tails,  starring Cuba Gooding Jr. and Terence Howard,  tells the story of Tuskegee Airmen such as Dr. Roscoe Brown (above). Brown visited Syracuse in the 1990s.

We All Got History

Thursday, January 27th, 2011
Richard Breland at Syracuse University discussing his photo collection

Richard Breland at Syracuse University discussing his photo collection

Photographer, historian, activist and all-around nice guy Richard Breland attended a public event and talked about his life in pictures tonight.  Much of his archive features pictures of Syracuse’s old 15th Ward. Breland’s work, which will be displayed on campus until March, is the latest public showing for the Black Syracuse Project coordinated by Syracuse University.