I am an Angry American and I’m not alone except I really don’t want to be. But, it’s hard when you are being daily bombarded by violent words and violent images from both sides of the ideological spectrum. Have you read the latest tweets from President Donald Trump and his nemesis, everyone else? Angry Americans…
1968 vs. 2020 is the latest area of discussion and contention for critics, intellectuals, and political pundits. There is no doubt that the year 1968 was one of the most traumatic ones in post-World War Two America. The United States of America in 2020 is nearly seven months in and we’re all finding ourselves comparing…
“As the U.S. mourns the death of civil rights leader and congressmember John Lewis, Lewis’s longtime friend, Bernard Lafayette, remembers desegregating Greyhound buses and pushing forward together during the Freedom Rides. In December of 1960, Lafayette — now a professor at Auburn University — and Lewis took a front seat on a Greyhound bus from…
“Racism in the United States isn’t all that it seems. While many of us like to believe that we’re closer than ever to reaching a post-racial society, the research of Dr. Candis Watts Smith paints a very different picture. In her talk, Dr. Watts Smith dispels what we think we know about racism, and explores…
“The partisan results of President Trump’s Senate impeachment trial reinforced the political divisions characterizing current American politics. How does this moment compare with the past? Judy Woodruff sits down with the University of New Hampshire’s Ellen Fitzpatrick, presidential historian Michael Beschloss and Carolyn Lukensmeyer of the National Institute for Civil Discourse to discuss.” Stream your…
“Lydia Mason (CAS ’21) won the 2018 Constitution Day Slam, hosted by the NYU Brademas Center and NYU Government Affairs, with her poem called “Dear America.” Listen to her powerful words: “On our 13th date, you promised things would be different. That you would finally learn how to love me. But your love affair with…
“Several strong experiences with the complexities of race as a child led Hephzibah to wanting to escape these problems by becoming a business major and ‘marrying well’. As she embarked on that path she found that solution incomplete and unfulfilling and so move into studying economics and sociology. Since then, she has developed an understanding…
“Ezequiel discusses the experiences of his classmates and himself in the book, We Are America, that they wrote in a class with Jessica Lander at Lowell High School. Ezequiel Nunez is a senior, a Student-Athlete and a Master Sergeant at the AFJROTC (MA-771) program at Lowell High School. Mr. Nunez is an advocate and an…
As we celebrate American History this week, PalacioMagazine.com will feature a daily tribute to the history that defines who we are as a nation. “Documentary | Latino Americans: Prejudice and Pride (Episode 5) In the 1960s and 1970s a generation of Mexican Americans, frustrated by persistent.” “LATINO AMERICANS is a landmark three-part, six-hour documentary series…
As we celebrate American History this week, PalacioMagazine.com will feature a daily tribute to the history that defines who we are as a nation. “LATINO AMERICANS is a landmark three-part, six-hour documentary series that aired nationally on PBS in the fall of 2013. It was the first major documentary series for television to chronicle the…