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One hundred and fifty years after Ezra Cornell promised “any person … any study” to students of the University he founded, this ambitious motto still remains aspirational, — and unfulfilled — according to professors who came to share their reflections in a Monday panel.For Prof. Gerard Aching M.A. ’90, Ph.D. ’91, romance studies, Ezra’s words...
Franco-Congolese poet and novelist Alain Mabanckou won the 2018 Zora Neale Hurston/Richard Wright Legacy Award for fiction for “Black Moses,” a novel that follows the journey of an orphan from Loango through a revolution in the Congo to Pointe-Noire and the home of a madam with “ten girls, each more beautiful than the last.”“It all began when I...
President Martha E. Pollack issued the following message to the Cornell community Oct. 16:One of Cornell’s signature strengths is our rural-urban footprint, allowing us to provide faculty, staff and students with a breadth of learning, innovation and public engagement opportunities. The establishment of Cornell Tech on Roosevelt Island, combined...
Beyoncé and Her HusbandThis article explores infidelity and kinship within representations of the marriage of two superstar African American performers, Beyoncé Giselle Knowles-Carter, popularly known as Beyoncé, and her husband, Shawn Carter, whose stage name is Jay-Z. It takes Beyoncé’s Peabody Award–winning twelve-track visual album Lemonade...
...Dr. Salah Hassan, Goldwin Smith Professor and Director, Institute for Comparative Modernities, Cornell University said the newly rebuilt Africa Hall is hoped to revive the golden era of the building in the 1970s and 1980s when it served as the hub of cultural events that included literary, theatrical and musical performances, and poetry reading...
...Music industry expert speaksNumerous artists have been launched into chart-topping, award-winning careers by Mathew Knowles – including his daughters Beyoncé and Solange. On Thursday, Sept. 27, Knowles discusses his first two books, “The DNA of Achievers” and “Racism from the Eyes of a Child,” in a panel at 4:30 p.m. in the Africana Studies...
...This center for African and African Diaspora studies will also examine the historical and contemporary linkages between Africa and the Arab Gulf region, demonstrating that geographic proximity and economic and cultural exchanges over millennia have long connected Africa and the Arab Gulf. Conceived as a research-based think-tank and a...
A member of the famed Knowles family is coming to campus this month, but sorry Beyhive, it’s not Beyoncé.On Sept. 27, Mathew Knowles, renowned music industry entrepreneur, public speaker and former manager to his daughters Beyoncé and Solange Knowles, will visit Cornell to discuss his books in a panel discussion at the Africana Studies and...
...Extra credit: Frank Ocean isn’t the only musician to get a DeCal course at UC Berkeley: Students can also sign up for The Music, Lyrics and Art of Radiohead, Can’t Tell Me Nothing: The Development of Kanye West’s Artistry, and a Drake class called Started From the Bottom: The Artistic Evolution of Aubrey Drake Graham.While Beyoncé classes...
Correction: The Sun previously reported that George Zimmerman is a police officer, when in fact he was a neighborhood watch volunteer. The Sun also incorrectly stated Zimmerman’s race. American courts, police forces, job search processes and standardized education systems all discriminate against speakers of Black Vernacular English, a Stanford...
The reluctant surrealistThe College of Architecture, Art and Planning is hosting the first solo exhibition in the U.S. of Armenian-Egyptian photographer Van-Leo, a portraitist with an experimental practice on the fringe of the surrealist movement.On display through Sept. 26 in the Bibliowicz Family Gallery in Milstein Hall, the self-portraits...
Image: Quilt by Sanford Biggers from the Cartographer’s Conundrum, MASS MoCA, 2012, 77 x 70 inchesIn the fight to end slavery, the 1788 image of a slave ship had an outsized impact on legislators and the public. In her new book, “Committed to Memory: the Art of the Slave Ship Icon,” art historian Cheryl Finley provides the first in-depth look at...
...Dr. Riché Richardson, a Public Voices Fellow and Mellon Diversity Fellow and associate professor in the Africana Studies and Research Center at Cornell University, said the voices of the victims matter most and it’s not fair to make judgments about when women and girls report violations.“Reasons that they do not report incidents vary, like...
In early August, Cornell alumni got together for a series of events on Martha’s Vineyard sponsored by Diversity Alumni Programs and Cornell Mosaic, joining a rich summer tradition of intellectual and cultural offerings on the island.A reception hosted by Dr. Deborah Arrindell ’79 at her home on August 6 started the week. More than 115 alumni,...
The Zora Neale Hurston/Richard Wright Foundation will present merit awards to two pioneers in their fields at the 2018 Legacy Awards Ceremony on Friday, October 19 at the historic Washington Plaza Hotel in Washington, D.C.Receiving the North Star Award—the foundation’s highest honor for career accomplishment and inspiration to the writing...
The celebration of the life and legacy of Dorothy Foreman Cotton Aug. 11 in Bailey Hall provided highlights of her life as a civil rights pioneer, educator and community organizer and called on participants to keep her legacy alive. Attending were representatives from five generations of Cotton family members and about 700 local and national...
If you don't already own a 'Carrie necklace', chances are you've seen them in music videos, films, fashion shoots – and, of course, in Sex in the City. But the origins and cultural significance of the jewellery goes much deeper than Carrie Bradshaw. Grace Shutti explores the origins of the nameplate necklace, which emerged from black and Hispanic...
Saturday, August 11, 20182:00 - 4:30 pmBailey Hall, 230 Garden AvenueCornell University Campus, Ithaca, NY
...Cornell University associate professor Riché Richardson wrote in the New York Times in 2015 that the Aunt Jemina logo “remains one of the longest continually running logos and trademarks in the history of American advertising.”“This Aunt Jemima logo was an outgrowth of Old South plantation nostalgia and romance grounded in an idea about the ‘...
Cynthia Nixon is sipping green tea while sitting at the counter in her kitchen in her New York City apartment in lower Manhattan. In her living room, large windows overlooking her neighborhood welcome daylight that reaches into the kitchen. Behind her is an off-white pantry covered with drawings by her 7-year-old son, Max...While Nixon, 52,...
This is the first time the prize has been awarded to two finalists. Fady Jameel, President of Art Jameel, presented Mehdi and Marina with the prize at an evening ceremony at the Victoria and Albert Museum (V&A) on Wednesday....The winner was decided by a panel of juries chaired by Tristram Hunt, Director of the V&A. The juries are Salah...
A private funeral for civil rights icon Dorothy Cotton was held Wednesday at the Africana Studies and Research Center at Cornell University. Dorothy Cotton, a civil rights leader who worked alongside the Rev. Martin Luther King Jr., died on June 10 at the age of 88 at the retirement community Kendal at Ithaca.About 100 people attended the...
It took just 10 seconds to catapult KIPP Newark Collegiate Academy's principal to Internet fame.Principal Sean Stevens '10 didn't hesitate to show off his dance moves at the high school's prom on June 7. While it was a delightful surprise for the nearly 1.5 million viewers of the video posted online (view instagram video here), for Principal...
NEWARK, NJ — In a surprise ceremony in front of her students, Jody-Anne Jones '06, principal of North Star Academy Clinton Hill Middle School of Newark, was honored Wednesday with the 2018 Ryan Award for exceptional school leadership, a national award that honors urban principals who are closing the achievement gap.According to a statement from...
...The pro- and anti-Trump camps did find one area of common ground on the specific question of the Eagles event. There was wide agreement that Trump had little choice but to rescind the invitation after it became clear that only a small number of Eagles players were willing to attend.“This is not a disinvitation. They have chosen not to go,”...