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...Bronx native Sonia Sotomayor testified before the Senate and President Barack H. Obama visited New York to commemorate the centennial of the NAACP, I sat on the Lower East Side, a neighborhood that has been home to immigrants for generations. I work at Henry Street Settlement, founded by Lillian Wald, an early supporter of the NAACP. She hosted the informal reception that kicked off the 1909 National Negro Conference that helped launch the century-old organization. In a stuffy office across from housing projects, I read drafts of college essays written by New York high school students, including many...
...Silent films. Once a larger part of TCM programming, mute cinema is now mostly confined to a Sunday-midnight niche - a glorious grotto, whose saints are Lon Chaney, Lillian Gish, John Gilbert, Marion Davies and other stars of MGM silents. The slot also is home to early masterworks from France (Jacques Feyder's Queen of Atlantis), Germany (F.W. Murnau's The Last Laugh) and Sweden (Victor Sjostrom's Phantom Carriage). The country doesn't matter; all these films speak an eloquent visual language...
...she’s done since elementary school. “I decided to be an actor when I was 9, before I really knew anything about any of it,” she says. Since coming to Harvard, Rich has performed in 16 productions, playing characters such as Lillian LaFleur in “Nine,” Samuel Byck in “Assassins,” and April in “Company.” She has worked behind the scenes in several shows including “Alice and Wonderland?...
City councilors agreed unanimously this week to honor Lillian Kiernan Brown—a.k.a. former burlesque dancer Lily Ann Rose—on April 10, 2009, which is now officially “Lily Ann Rose...
...housed, and not kept in refugee camps. Sadly, the unfortunate Palestinians' numbers have now ballooned from thousands to millions. All refugees have rights. The Jewish refugees from Arab lands are the forgotten refugees who were never compensated, either for their financial loss or the trauma that they suffered. Lillian Cohen, KFAR MONASH, ISRAEL...