The Artist Upending Photographyâs Brutal Racial Legacy
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Deana Lawson at her studio in New York City.Credit.Lyle Ashton Harris for The New York Times
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The Artist Upending Photographyâs Brutal Racial Legacy
Deana Lawsonâs regal, loving, unburdened photographs imagine a world in which Black people are free from the distortions of history.
Deana Lawson at her studio in New York City.Credit.Lyle Ashton Harris for The New York Times
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A few months ago, the photographer Deana Lawson and her family were driving to an art opening in the Inglewood neighborhood of Los Angeles when Lawson spotted a garage sale out of the corner of her eye. She wanted to pull over, but her 19-year-old son was tired, and he balked. The family passed the sale again on their way back home, and this time, Lawson insisted. When she met an elderly woman tend
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Despite the fact that music venues around the city were allowed to reopen at lower capacity as of April, many chose to hold off until they were able to open safely to a full house. Now that Governor Andrew Cuomo has decided to end most capacity restrictions as of May 19th, some venues will begin to bring back shows more readily. But in the meantime, BAM is staging an extremely unique and extremely personal socially-distanced musical experience in the Brooklyn Navy Yard.
The Artist Is Present but instead of being engaged in an intense, tear-inducing staring contest, you get to hear a lovely musical piece.
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When Julissa Gutierrez was appointed New York’s chief diversity officer last summer, she was tasked with registering more MWBEs and reaching the state’s ambitious 30% MWBE contract utilization goal – which New York nearly did, with the state announcing in December that 29.51% of its contracts had been awarded to firms owned by women or minorities in the 2019-2020 fiscal year. An expert on Latino issues and civic engagement, Gutierrez previously held key roles with the National Association of Latino Elected and Appointed Officials Educational Fund.
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Lime Launches Electric Moped Service in New York City
Lime’s moped showcased at a Brooklyn Navy Yard press event on Friday, April 30th. (Image: Billy Richling)
The micromobility company Lime has launched an electric moped service in Brooklyn, Queens and Manhattan, adding another two-wheeled transportation option to city streets.
Lime rolled out a fleet of 100 battery-powered, lime-green vehicles on Friday, which the company says it plans to grow to 500 in the coming weeks. The launch comes less than a month after news that Lime and other companies will also offer an e-scooter pilot program in the Bronx this summer.
Construction of
Arizona – then known simply as Battleship 39 – began in March 1914 at the Brooklyn Navy Yard, which ran twenty-four hours per day and at full capacity employed 70,000 workers. It was originally assumed the warship would be named
North Carolina in honor of the home state of Josephus Daniels, the Navy secretary.
It has been common practice in recent years for U.S. Navy sailors who served on the battleship USS
Arizona (BB-39) to have their ashes scattered over the wreck site – a way for them to be reunited with those crew members who were lost when the ship was sunk on December 7, 1941. More than thirty sailors who survived the attack had chosen the site as their final resting place.