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Everett The pioneering writer-director fought to bring Jewish stories to the silver screen at a time when some of her projects were considered an "ethnic oddity," she has said. Joan Micklin Silver, the pioneering independent female director behind Hester Street and Crossing Delancey, among many other titles, who fought to bring Jewish stories to the silver screen, has died. She was 85. Silver died on Thursday at her home in Manhattan of vascular dementia, Silver's daughter, Claudia, told Born and raised in Omaha, Nebraska to Russian Jewish parents, Silver left home to attend Sarah Lawrence...

Joan Micklin Silver, boundary-breaking director of Crossing Delancey, dies at 85 Tyler Aquilina Crossing Delancey and the boundary-breaking independent film  Hester Street, died Thursday of vascular dementia at her Manhattan home, according to her daughter. She was 85. Silver helped break barriers for female filmmakers and for Jewish representation on screen, with  Hester Street, her 1975 debut, telling the story of a young Russian Jewish immigrant couple on New York's Lower East Side in the 1890s. Silver’s husband Raphael D. Silver, a commercial real estate developer, rai...

The America that I didn’t know existed: Immigrant experience in American education Francis Kwarteng wanted to share his harrowing American experiences with the American public as well as with the world, to contribute to the discourse on race relations, and to provide critical solutions to these problems. It is for these reasons that he writes, “The America That I Didn’t Know Existed: Immigrant Experience in American Education.” This book raises serious questions about the way Black people are viewed and treated in America via Kwarteng’s varied social and educational experiences in ...

Welcome in this future we must create. join this effort and help us create a better era for the american people beginning in november 2020. >> thank you. senator sanders. >> thank you. let me see a word about myself. unusual as it may seem. i am the son of an immigrant young man of 17 who came to this country without a nickel in his pocket. i have some sense of the immigrant experience. i stand with the 11 million undocumented immigrants in this country. at the age of 21, as a member of a civil rights group at the university of chicago, i was arrested, spent the night in jail, and i have been ...

Ready to be part of this coalition, and a lot of future former republicans who i know are watching this, disgusted by what is happening in their own party and in this country. i want you to know that everybody is welcome in this movement that we're building and everybody is welcome in this future that we must create. i hope you go to peteforamerica.com, join this effort, and help us create a better era for the american people beginning in november 2020. >> thank you. senator sanders. >> thank you. let me say a word about myself. unusual as it may seem. i am the son of an immigrant. young man o...