Onondaga County Executive Joanie Mahoney, who has historically been a politician commitment to collaboration, gave her State of the County address yesterday at the Civic Center. Mahoney said although the County is healthy and strong, she is still striving for a smaller, less expensive government.
Dashe Roberts (2016 Women in Music Concert)
Josanique Everson, student, Corcoran High
Essence Cooper sang a tune by Amy Winehouse during CFAC’s Women in Music show on Thursday.
Bishop Vashti Murphy McKenzie was today’s keynote speaker at the Black Enterprise Women of Power Summit. She visited Syracuse (above) about a decade ago.
Kierna Mayo, editor
She has been at Ebony for less than a year, but Kierna Mayo is already on a Tina Brown-type trajectory to change the publication, and scramble what we think of as the journalistic status quo.
Mayo encouraged students to bring their “authentic self” to their work and to critically examine the culture in which they cover.
“[How you think] is the thing that changes you from having a job to having a career.”
“Create a space for your kind of thinking,” she said. “…feeling empowered matters.”
Mayos has deep roots in magazines, including stints at Honey and Cosmo Girl and even the Source.
She also talked about the day she played hookie from work to cover and experience the street procession following the funeral of The Notorious B.I.G.
She is credited with giving Mary J. Blige the “Queen of Hip Hop Soul” label back in the day. She visited SU’s Newhouse School as part of the Leaders in Communications series.
Mayo is the second Hampton University graduate we’ve seen speak to the journalism students.
Television producer Erika Green is re-writing the rules of what we expect television to show us.
Here was one of our favorite performances from Women’s History Month. Soprano Mary Rose Go remixed the song Dahil Sa’Yo with her poetry during the Women in Music event at the Community Folk Art Center. What an amazing voice.
Earlier in the week we were pleased hear, for the first time, Starlett Brown. She performed as one of the acts for the Women in Music event at the Community Folk Art Center.
Brown has sang background for many national-acts. In this clip she shows her range and takes a secular song and folds it into the sacred realm. Listen and let it take you to church…
Here is a Marvin Gaye cover from Thursday’s Women in Music event at the Community Folk Art Center. You’ll enjoy the great melodic synergy between Sherri Williams, Jeff Houston and Travis Reed, plus the slide show of local and national protest photographs that accompanied the song was genius. Almost makes you wanna holler!