Lorraine Ryder News Today

Items in this column were selected by volunteers on behalf of the Yates County History Center after searching records found at nyshistoricnewspapers.org.

As a Black woman, she blazed a path Off Broadway with an intuitive grasp of “how a story should be told, particularly a Black story,” Giancarlo Esposito said.

Donald P. Ryder, architect of Black cultural works, dies at 94 "He was drafted out of college at 19 years old into service in the segregated armed forces to serve as a prison guard and driver to white officers, and attended a segregated college campus,” said his daughter. The New York Times reported Ryder died on February 17, in his New Rochelle, NY home. The death was confirmed to the outlet by his daughter Lorraine Ryder. As an architect, Ryder and his firm designed important sites for ...

Donald P. Ryder, Architect of Black Heritage Sites, Dies at 94 His firm, which he formed with J. Max Bond Jr., designed public works commemorating the civil rights movement as well as the Schomburg Center in Harlem. The architects Donald P. Ryder, center, J. Max Bond Jr., left, and Nathan Smith in about 1969. Mr. Ryder and Mr. Bond’s New York firm designed prominent repositories of Black culture and social history. Credit...via Davis Brody Bond, LLP April 14, 2021Updated 3:55 p.m. ET Donald ...