Violence, Death, and Their Consequences

2020 ◽  
pp. 108-121
Author(s):  
Susan M. Reverby
Keyword(s):  
New York ◽  
Grand Jury ◽  
Black Liberation

Members of the May 19th Communist Organization and other of Berkman’s comrades provided support for the Black Liberation Army’s attempted robbery of a Brink’s armoured truck in Nyack, New York. In the aftermath, two policemen and a guard were killed, and several of his comrades captured. One of the get-away drivers accidently shot herself, and Berkman was called to save her life. The FBI went after him and he refused to speak before a grand jury. After seven months in jail, he was about to be indicted again. Instead he jumped bail and went underground.

scholarly journals The University, Neighborhood Revitalization, and Civic Engagement: Toward Civic Engagement 3.0

Societies ◽  
2018 ◽  
Vol 8 (4) ◽  
pp. 106 ◽  
Author(s):  
Henry Taylor, Jr. ◽  
D. Luter ◽  
Camden Miller
Keyword(s):  
New York ◽  
Civic Engagement ◽  
Neighborhood Effects ◽  
Social Transformation ◽  
New York Times ◽  
Neighborhood Revitalization ◽  
Columbia University ◽  
Black Liberation ◽  
Anchor Institutions ◽  
The University

This essay analyzes and syntheses key theories and concepts on neighborhood change from the literature on anchor institutions, university engagement, gentrification, neighborhood effects, Cold War, Black liberation studies, urban political economy, and city building. To deepen understanding of the Columbia University experience, we complemented the literature analysis with an examination of the New York Times and Amsterdam newspapers from 1950 to 1970. The study argues that higher education’s approach to neighborhood revitalization during the urban renewal age, as well as in the post-1990 period, produced undesirable results and failed to spawn either social transformation or build the neighborly community espoused by Lee Benson and Ira Harkavy. The essay explains the reasons why and concludes with a section on a more robust strategy higher education can pursue in the quest to bring about desirable change in the university neighborhood.

New York's Legislature Under the Microscope

1946 ◽  
Vol 40 (3) ◽  
pp. 521-527
Author(s):  
John W. Lederle
Keyword(s):  
New York ◽  
New York State ◽  
State Legislature ◽  
Grand Jury ◽  
General Picture ◽  
York State ◽  
Political Machine ◽  
Legislative Improvement

In these days of widespread dissatisfaction with legislative bodies, we are being presented with numerous studies on legislative improvement. One of the most interesting has recently been made by a special grand jury which investigated the New York state legislature. Although the final presentment praises the “general efficiency” and “rectitude” of the legislature and concludes with the statement that “the general picture … is of earnest men diligently engaged upon a public task in an earnest manner,” specific findings reveal serious laxities in the conduct of the state's legislative affairs. No doubt similar laxities may be found in most other states.There are always rumors and whisperings as to evil goings-on in our legislative halls. The New York special grand jury did a real service in finding out their truth or falsity. It is of interest that neither the legislature nor the governor would, on their own volition, have considered such an investigation. We owe it to the fortuitous circumstance that Republican Governor Dewey and the Democratic political machine of Albany county did not like each other.

scholarly journals Karlovy Vary 2012

2012 ◽  
Author(s):  
Gönül Dönmez-Colin
Keyword(s):  
New York ◽  
Grand Jury ◽  
Film Festival ◽  
Film Festivals ◽  
Budget Cuts ◽  
Programme Director ◽  
Similar Role ◽  
Young Wife

47th KARLOVY VARY FILM FESTIVAL Over 200 films, including 34 shorts and 56 documentaries, with 23 world premieres and more than 120,000 tickets sold. Karlovy Vary International Film Festival celebrated its 47th year with triumph this summer despite budget cuts that have also been menacing many other film festivals. The Grand Jury, headed by Richard Peña, programme director of New York Film Festival, and including Montreal's well-known actor François Papineau, judged a dozen films over eight days (June 29 - July 7, 2012). In the Official Competition, Pele akher (The Last Step) by Ali Mosaffa from Iran, focused on a somewhat confused young wife-widow played by Leila Hatami, well-known for her role as an irritable housewife in Asghar Farhadi's Oscar winner, A Separation. The Last Step however lacked the well-written script of A Separation and also suffered from Hatami's being cast in a similar role as in her earlier...

Suffrage and the New Negro in the Black Public Sphere

2020 ◽  
pp. 98-114
Author(s):  
Jane Rhodes
Keyword(s):  
New York ◽  
World War I ◽  
Public Sphere ◽  
Social Transformation ◽  
Equal Opportunity ◽  
Women's Suffrage ◽  
New Negro ◽  
Black Liberation ◽  
Black Public Sphere ◽  
Women’S Suffrage

The era immediately following World War I was tumultuous for African American communities, with its widespread backlash against black American soldiers, urban antiblack violence and riots, and lynching. The black press, which conveyed the communities’ sense of anxiety and grievance, was critical to the formation and maintenance of a radical black counterpublic—a formation that operated outside the mainstream public sphere. While some black publications stayed on the margins of radical politics, this chapter shows that others embraced more militant ideas and strategies. Socialism and the Communist Party held special sway for some African Americans seeking a way out of their social, economic, and political isolation. A. Philip Randolph and Chandler Owen, who founded The Messenger in New York in 1917, supported woman suffrage and promised to help women make the most profitable and desirable use of the ballot. The Messenger’s editors viewed black women’s suffrage as part of a larger political and social transformation that would give the masses a voice and equal opportunity. W. E. B. Du Bois also articulated strong “profeminist” politics in the pages of The Crisis, promoting women’s suffrage as a key element in the quest for black liberation.

scholarly journals Introduction to the Forum on Dr. James H. Cone as Teacher and Mentor

2020 ◽  
Vol 1 (2) ◽  
pp. 79-80
Author(s):  
Pui-lan Kwok
Keyword(s):  
New York ◽  
New York City ◽  
Doctoral Students ◽  
Liberation Theology ◽  
York City ◽  
Theological Seminary ◽  
Black Liberation ◽  
Black Liberation Theology ◽  
Du Bois ◽  
Transformative Impact

Dr. James H. Cone (1938-2018) is widely considered the founder of black liberation theology. He had a transformative impact on generations of his students at Union Theological Seminary in New York City. In the semester following his death in Spring 2018, six of his current and recent doctoral students were gathered to share brief reflections on their experience of Dr. Cone as an inspirational teacher. This Forum collects their edited presentations in six short essays by: Nkosi Du Bois Anderson, Adam Clark, Isaac Sharp, Colleen Wessel-McCoy, Thurman Todd Willison, and Jason Wyman.

“You Will Not Be Able to Stay Home, [Sister]”

2018 ◽  
pp. 199-212
Author(s):  
Joseph R. Fitzgerald
Keyword(s):  
New York ◽  
New York City ◽  
New Jersey ◽  
Black Community ◽  
York City ◽  
Black Power ◽  
Black People ◽  
Black Liberation ◽  
Freedom Struggle ◽  
Black Residents

The chapter starts by describing Gloria Richardson’s new life in New York City, but the story quickly moves back to Cambridge, Maryland. There, in the summer of 1967, she facilitated Black Power activist H. Rap Brown’s visit to speak to black residents who were continuing their freedom struggle. A massive fire in the city’s black community on the night of Brown’s visit was caused by arson and not, as is popularly believed, by black people rioting. That summer also saw the first gathering of Black Power advocates from around the country at the National Conference on Black Power in Newark, New Jersey. Richardson attended this event and was excited about Black Power’s potential to push the freedom struggle forward. Finally, the chapter covers her assessment of Black Power, specifically, its emphasis on black consciousness, and Stokely Carmichael’s and other Black Nationalists’ political strategies for achieving black liberation.

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