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clement-irma-baahp-oral-history-2020-7.mp4
Oral history of Irma Clement, member of Eta Omega Omega Chapter of Alpha Kappa Alpha Sorority, Inc., recorded for the Bronx African American History Project in July 2020.

Position: 89 (92 views)

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"Ode to the Nuyorican," the first published poem of Mariposa Fernández, published in New York Newsday on June 11, 1995, in a feature spread with poetry by other Puerto Rican poets.

Position: 28 (172 views)

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Photograph of Mariposa Fernández taken by Mariposa for a photography class in high school.

Position: 55 (126 views)

MS-FERNANDEZ.001.034-lolita-lebron-casa-nd.mp4
Recording of Mariposa singing to famous Puerto Rican Nationalist Lolita Lebrón on the occasion of her birthday.

Position: 42 (140 views)

MS-FERNANDEZ.001.023-mariposa-born-broxena-chapbook-poetry-2001.pdf
Born Bronxeña: Poems on Identity, Survival, Love & Freedom, a chapbook of poems written by Mariposa Fernández

Position: 23 (194 views)

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Photograph, artistically rendered, of Mariposa Fernández reciting poetry.

Position: 5 (297 views)

MS-FERNANDEZ.BD003.001-garcia-rivera-sandra-that-kiss-2000.pdf
That Kiss, a chapbook of a poem written by Bronx-based award-winning poet Sandra Garcia Rivera, friend of Mariposa Fernández.

Position: 34 (156 views)

Video produced by Shekinah Green for the Community Notes section of this repository, inspired by The Bronx Aerosol Arts Documentary Project

Position: 3 (333 views)

jackson-sheila-myers-anne-baahp-oral-history-2020.mp4
Oral history of Sheila Jackson and Anne Myers, members of Eta Omega Omega Chapter of Alpha Kappa Alpha Sorority, Inc., recorded for the Bronx African American History Project in 2020.

Position: 45 (137 views)

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Photograph of Ntozake Shange as a boxer, photographed by Adál Maldonado in 1993 and dedicated to Mariposa Fernández on the occasion of her wedding to herself on August 11, 2001. Among attendees was actress Rosie Perez. Retouched digitally…

Position: 38 (145 views)

MS-FERNANDEZ.BD003.002-morales-anthony-universes-1998.pdf
UNIverses., a chapbook of poetry written by Bronx-based poet Anthony Morales

Position: 49 (134 views)

Recording of Poetas Pa' Vieques, an event held on June 13, 2000, organized by Bronx poets Mariposa and her twin sister MelleSoul and held at Café Largo, 3387 Broadway. The event was in support of the liberation struggles of the Puerto…

Position: 20 (197 views)

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Screenshot of email by Dr. Mark Naison of Fordham University reflecting on oral history with Dr. Candice Scott, member of Eta Omega Omega Chapter of Alpha Kappa Alpha Sorority, Inc., recorded for the Bronx African American History Project in 2020.

Position: 74 (99 views)

BCHS Journal 2022.pdf
Vol. 59, nos. 1–2 of The Bronx County Historical Society Journal, published 2022.

Contents:
— Steven Payne, "An Oral History of Dr. Evelina Antonetty," p. 1
— Richard Baum, "Kingsbridge Vignettes," p. 19
— Robert Weiss, "Allerton in the…

Position: 1 (672 views)

In this recording, part of a larger video memoir project, lifetime activist and educator Suzanne Ross narrates her family's background. Her father was born to a poor religious Jewish family in Nuremberg, Germany that had migrated from Poland. His…

Position: 38 (145 views)

In this recording, part of a larger video memoir project, lifetime activist and educator Suzanne Ross narrates her immediate family's escape from the Holocaust. Much of her family did not make it out of Europe alive. Suzanne reflects on the…

Position: 29 (168 views)

In this recording, part of a larger video memoir project, lifetime activist and educator Suzanne Ross remembers the development of her morality as a child (starting at 00:09:58), both in Mozambique, while observing the life of her family's Black…

Position: 17 (211 views)

In this recording, part of a larger video memoir project, lifetime activist and educator Suzanne Ross recalls her early experience of being exposed to Zionism in Palestine on the kibbutz in the 1940s, before the creation of the state of Israel.…

Position: 21 (196 views)

In this recording, part of a larger video memoir, Suzanne Ross traces her profound Jewish identity, shaped by her family’s flight from Nazi-occupied Belgium during WWII. As a child refugee across Europe, North Africa, and Palestine, she learned…

Position: 11 (250 views)

In this recording, part of a larger video memoir project, lifetime activist and educator Suzanne Ross explains why she produced these memoirs, part 1 of 2.

From Suzanne: "For my daughter and grandchildren as they have always been very interested…

Position: 148 (16 views)

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