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Sarah Lawrence College will present "Artists Talk," a program in conjunction with an exhibit of artist Vinnie Bagwell's Enslaved Africans Rain Garden project, Thursday in the Reisinger Auditorium on campus in Bronxville. Bagwell and spoken word artist Ty Gray-EL will speak about the project that honors the enslaved Africans who resided at the historic Philipse Manor Hall in downtown Yonkers, six of whom were the first to be manumitted by law in the United States, 79 years before the Emancipation Proclamation, according to a release from Sarah Lawrence.
... "the call," as he refers to it, Kinnally considered himself a religious person. He was raised Roman Catholic in Yonkers, N.Y. and went to mass regularly as a child. In college, he became enraptured by literature, consuming novels and poetry ...
The Black History Month Book Fair opened on Thursday at SUNY Purchase College Center for Community and Culture, "PC4," at 16 Warburton Avenue in the Yonkers Downtown Waterfront Arts District. For the two days of the Book Fair, PC4 is converted into a pop-up bookstore and library.
A substantial grant to help inner city youth become teachers so they can help economically-disadvantaged youth was given to Sarah Lawrence College's Art of Teaching Graduate program. The $103,000 five-year grant from New York State's Teacher Opportunity Corps will help the college expand its work in Yonkers public schools, according to a State Education Department announcement Monday.
... pollution in the Passaic River and Newark Bay. Sarah Lawrence College Center for the Urban River at Beczak in Yonkers, New York will work with Riverkeeper, the Bronx River Alliance, the Hudson River Watershed Alliance and community watershed groups ...
... Showtime, were seen in the historic Rockland County hamlet of Tappan, lohud.com reported. Sarah Lawrence College's Yonkers campus in Westchester was the setting for Richard Gere's new flick "The Three Christs of Ypsilanti," which stars the Bedford ...
