‘Fearless warrior’: Activist, trailblazer Audrey Harvey remembered for strengthening both Schenectady, state | The Daily Gazette
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As she puts it, the first-born daughter watched her mother do something revolutionary.
“Mom decided that she was going to do the Black Telecom program with her natural hair,” Harvey-Salaam said. “That was a radical act. Her ‘natural’ was soft and full, with a portion that was silver in the center of her head. After observing her fluffing the hair, I suggested that we create a star, so I molded it, creating an image that she kept throughout her career. When she returned home after the show she was glowing and the phone began to ring, with many different reactions to her boldness. She turned to me and said, ‘You see the power of hair?’ Simple as that… I understood that she was empowering me to be all that I dreamed.”
Schenectady puts forward allocation of CARES Act funding to assist homeless community | The Daily Gazette
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The city has opened the public comment period for its plan to distribute nearly $995,000 in federal coronavirus relief funding targeted to responding to the impact of the pandemic on the homeless community, with six local agencies set to receive funds.
Under the CARES Act, the city was allocated a total of $994,996 in Emergency Solutions Grant (ESG-CV2) funding by the federal Department of Housing and Urban Development to prevent, prepare for and respond to the pandemic among individuals and families who are homeless.
In order to access the funding, the city is required to present a plan to HUD identifying key partners and service providers; as well as specific services and activities that will help prevent, prepare for and respond to COVID-19 among the homeless population.
Connection through chaos: Brown School students in Schenectady tackle topic of empathy | The Daily Gazette
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What is the nature of empathy?
Do we live in an empathetic society and why, or why not?
How are you feeling right now?
That was the jumping-off point for the high school students at Brown School as they embarked on “The Empathy Project: Connection Through Chaos,” a virtual live production put on in collaboration with The Outer Loop non-profit theater company that will give the students a chance to connect their personal stories with whatever creative outlets they choose.
For 11th-grader Owen Morley, that translated into creating a time-lapse drawing with a voice-over that reflects on his experience growing up as an adopted child from Russia. For his classmate, Kabir Pabla, it became the inspiration for the poster of the event, an image juxtaposing protests in India seeking justice for the country’s Sikh minority with the riots at the U.S. Capito