Word on The Street
Thalia Book Club: The Street by Ann Petry Wed, Apr 24 at 7:30 pm Symphony Space – Broadway and 95th Street Revisit this 1946 classic with authors Sapphire (Push), Sharifa Rhodes-Pitts (Harlem is Nowhere), and actress Sonia Manzano (The Revolution of Evelyn Serrano) and other writers explore the gritty, emotional story set in Harlem. Actress Roslyn Ruff (The Piano Lesson; The Help) will read an excerpt. [...]
THE MOST ILLITERATE NATION IN THE WORLD
“Not a thousand years ago it was illegal to teach a slave to read. Not a thousand years ago, the Supreme Court decided that separate could not be equal. And today, as we sit here, no one is learning anything in this country. You see a nation which is the leader of the rest of [...]
The Negro in New York: An Informal Social History, 1626-1940
“The Negro in New York is an unavoidably sketchy and uneven document, compiled by the Writers’ Program of New York City during that very brief period of the WPA when it was recognized that writers existed in our country and had to eat, and even had a certain utility – though, probably, no real value. [...]
