Carol Bonomo Albright and Christine Palamidessi Moore from italianamericana.org, discuss their anthology American Women, Italian Style: Italian-Americana’s Best Writings on Women. Their collection brings together writers with a wide range of backgrounds, outlooks, ideas, and experiences to examine the history of Italian women in America.
Author and Fordham Alumnus Robert Hinkley talks about his book “Time to Change Corporations: Closing the Citizenship Gap.”
CitySquash is recruiting inner-city students to up their game and their grades, and encouraging them to become competitive applicants for elite high schools and colleges.
Dr. Olivia Hooker talks about surviving The Tulsa Oklahoma Race Riot of 1921 and becoming the first African-American woman to enlist in the U.S. Coast Guard during World War 2.
David Surface, founder and director of the Veterans Writing Workshop, helps veterans
"Wild Man" is the one-man show of Matthew Maguire's own true-life stories. In this autobiographical work, Maguire is looking for that elusive connection to the audience and a performance that comes from "deeper in the bones."
There he spent the next 19-years going from one institution to another until he was – in his words “unceremoniously dumped out into the world.” In his book “Raised by the Church” Rohs talks about the history of orphanages, and speaks for some of the thousands of baby-boomers taken in by the catholic institutions in New York City.
Salvatore Basile, a cantor and historian at St. Patrick’s Cathedral, talks about his book, as well as, the Pontiff’s visit to St. Patrick’s in 2008 and Cathedral life in the days immediately after 9/11.
Once a year, a number of selfless New Yorker’s spend a cold winter’s night canvasing city parks, subways and other public spaces to count the number of people living on New York City streets.
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