I’m pretty sure I remember hearing something along the lines of, “Those who don’t know history are destined to repeat it,” and, frankly, I don’t think any of us could stomach reliving the ups and down of the past ten years. While at Harvard, a friend of ours, April Lee, came up with a solution: [...]
Category Archives: Politics
In Conversation with Alessandro Zuek Simonetti
September 12, 2010 – 10:30 pm
From NYC 08-10. All images by Alessandro Zuek Simonetti. I met Alessandro in Milan while he was preparing a photography exhibition. He’s a sort of Al Pacino-looking guy who grew up in Bassano del Grappa, a little Italian city near Venice, and moved to New York in his twenties, eventually finding his professional footing as [...]
Well Done, Judge Walker
August 5, 2010 – 1:17 pm
As you have probably heard, on Wednesday Judge Vaughn Walker of California over-turned Prop 8, the 2008 law which rescinded the right to same-sex marriage in California. Thank God. It’s not by any stretch a final victory, but at least it rectifies the wrong perpetuated by a lot of far-right and Mormon money a few [...]
Tea Party Madness
July 20, 2010 – 9:33 am
The above billboard, which compared Obama to Lenin and Hilter, was paid for by the Iowa Tea Party. While Tea Party officials did, after considerable pressure, take the billboard down, they didn’t go so far as to condemn the message, only saying that it felt like a “waste of money.” Having spent five years living [...]
Drill, Baby, Drill
June 4, 2010 – 11:18 am
I got this petition in my mailbox today to stop BP from receiving a bailout from the government for the disaster they have created so I thought I’d pass it along. I find it beyond disgusting that the CEO of BP publicy said “I want my life back” with no regard for our planet, or [...]
Tempelhof Airport
May 12, 2010 – 11:40 am
On the May 8, 2010, for the first time in 80 years, the area of the now closed Tempelhof Airport was opened to the public. The city of Berlin chose the slogan “Bewegungsfreiheit” (freedom to move) for the ceremonial two day opening event, but already during the opening speech of mayor Klaus Wowereit it became [...]
On the Ground in Port au Prince
May 11, 2010 – 7:09 am
Images and text by Will Sterns. I went to Haiti two days after the earthquake with Regine Zamor, a writer friend who—like most Haitian-Americans—couldn’t get in touch with her relatives in Port au Prince. After flying into Santo Domingo, we took a cab to the border and spent the night in a hotel, crossing into [...]
Lena Horne 1917-2010
May 11, 2010 – 2:43 am
Lena Horne was a trailblazer of many firsts- she was the first black woman to sign a major contract with a Hollywood studio, play the Copacabana and sign with a major white band in the late 1930′s. Her success came not solely from her great talent, for surely there were many other black singers with [...]
Dorothy Height
April 21, 2010 – 8:01 am
Dorothy Height was the only woman among the leadership of the civil rights movement, and was a tireless campaigner for women’s rights as well as racial equality, feeling them to be inextricably linked. I have to admit I hadn’t heard of her until hearing a piece about her on NPR yesterday, but I’ve since done [...]
Home at The Atlantic Yards
April 14, 2010 – 2:28 pm
After years of lawsuits, protests and fighting it looks like Bruce Ratner’s mega real-estate plan Atlantic Yards is actually going to happen. It will be the second largest construction project in NYC, after the World Trade Center. The courts ruled that eminent domain, which is typically used in cases of highways or airports, could be [...]
