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Remembering a Legend in the Radical Theater Movement (opens the original)
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Karen Malpede was 26 when she met Judith Malina in 1972. Malpede was an aspiring playwright who had just released her first book, People’s Theater in Amerika, a history of radical theater in the United States. Malina and her husband Julian Beck, both anarcho-pacifists, had co-founded the Living Theater in 1947 and had won global acclaim as pioneers of experimental theater with plays like The Brig and The Connection that challenged both political and theatrical conventions.Living Theater was base
NYC High School Newspapers Receive Funding As Local Journalism Across USA Declines (opens the original)
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Last week, the NYC Youth Journalism Coalition (YJC) and City Councilmembers Eric Dinowitz and Rita Joseph announced a $280,000 funding package to support high school journalism across New York City public high schools.The announcement was made on the steps of City Hall, where over a hundred students, educators, and their allies gathered to show support for high school journalism. “Journalism has been crucial for marginalized people across the city since its inception, informing the public of inj
Mobile Food Pantries Reach New Yorkers Afraid of ICE, But Hochul Won’t Fund Them (opens the original)
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These days you can get almost anything delivered to your doorstep, so it makes sense that New Yorkers want to bring food to their neighbors who fear being targeted by ICE if they go shopping or even to a food pantry. But Gov. Hochul has yet to commit funding such efforts, even as a successful pilot is now serving 1,950 people who are SNAP-ineligible or too afraid to come in. Read more below and at TheIndypendent.org.<a href="https://theindypendent.substack.com/subscribe?utm_source=menu&simple=tr
Even a Socialist Mayor is Management for City Employees (opens the original)
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Paraprofessionals are teaching assistants who provide instructional services to students under the general supervision of a certified teacher. More than 20,000 of them work in New York City’s public schools. They are poorly paid with a starting salary of $33,000 per year. The paras have been busy organizing in the United Federation of Teachers which has ignored their plight until recently. When the union’s leaders realized this neglect could cost them their jobs, they urged the City Council and
NYC’s Mid-19th Century Experiment with Racial Integration (opens the original)
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When people think of vibrant Black communities in New York City, of economically and creatively prosperous Black New Yorkers, it’s usually the Harlem Renaissance that comes to mind. It’s rarely the antebellum period, which Theodore Hamm writes tends to be thought of “as a depressing story of racist hostility and exclusion.”Historian Shane White says that’s a misconception, and in his new book “A Moment in the Sun: Black Manhattan Before the Civil War,” he tells the story of a unique and often ov
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