WORD Contributing Writer Avid Maldonao writes about the CENTRAL PARK FIVE film and it reads like a cautionary tale in the wake of the most controversial presidential election in American history.
Undocumented Students Want to Know If the Chancellor Stands With Them
By Ricardo Montero-Hernandez, December 14, 2016 Reporter Ricardo Montero-Hernandez was invited to a Roosevelt House forum where the concerns of undocumented students at CUNY were to be addressed. Some students, in turn, presented a petition to the office of the…
How Hunter Millennials Stay Informed About News – Part 5
By Contributing Writer Lesia Forde Do the comments of five students about how they view and interact with news and news sources reflect the overall temperament of that segment of the Hunter student body, 19 to 28 years old?…
MANCHESTER BY THE SEA Film Review, 54th New York Film Festival
By Senior Editor Kadia Goba, December 5, 2016 The gloomy opening shot of a cold Manchester Bay poetically provides a scenic tipoff of writer-director Kenneth Lonergan’s two-hour, 15-minute film about the doldrums and calamities of the film’s characters in this…
13TH Film Review, 54th New York Film Festival
By Senior Editor Kadia Goba, December 5, 2016 Once again, Ava DuVernay Executive Producer of the resounding SELMA, leads us through a sensitive but powerful cinematic voyage, this time, detailing the big business of mass incarceration and its menacing of…
CUNY J-School’s Post-Election Panel on Legal Protections and Rights of Undocumented Immigrants
The following passage is edited for context, accuracy and clarification for comments by Jojo Annobil, Executive Director, Immigrant Justice Corps, at the CUNY J-School forum, November 21. One-point-nine million of the undocumented population have lived in this country for…