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.
"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.
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.
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…
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…
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.
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…
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…
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…
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…
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.…
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…
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…