October 15, 2018
—Amber Jamilla Musser
On Simone Leigh’s exhibit at Luhring Augustine and brown jouissance that brings together violence and possibility in the same frame in order to reclaim and remake selfhood.
September 21, 2018
—Ted Merwin
Travel with Ted Merwin through the history of Yom Kippur into the current practice of the holiday and how Yom Kippur has been referenced in today’s pop culture.
March 1, 2018
—Johanna Neuman
It is easy to forget just how controversial was this idea that women should have the vote and the fight for women’s voting rights lasted far beyond inking the Nineteenth Amendment into the U.S. Constitution.
November 20, 2017
—Deborah Dash Moore
Deborah Dash Moore tells the New York Jewish story behind the Macy’s Thanksgiving Day Parade.
October 9, 2017
—Paul Moses
Taking into account family ties to another Cristoforo from Italy, Paul Moses explains why Italian immigrants embraced Columbus, and why he’s marching in this year’s parade.
September 29, 2017
2017 marks the centennial of women gaining the right to vote in New York. Did you know that our great state was a paramount player in the national movement for women’s suffrage? From Woodstock to Williamsburg, Seneca Falls to Chinatown, Buffalo to Battery Park, women in New York were leaders in the movement for 69 years, until suffrage was legalized in 1917.
September 8, 2017
New York City’s remarkable history, intimate stories, and struggles.
August 25, 2017
—Johanna Neuman
Men did not win the vote for women – female activists did. But perhaps this is how social change is made – a few brave souls standing up for what is right.