Live Blog of a Lifetime: Watching Obama’s 1st speech as President-Elect

11:57 p.m.  I have no words to put here, but saw an image that reflected perfectly my feelings: streaming tears on Jesse Jackson’s face. Way back in ‘88 he planted the seeds in believing voters like me–that a black man could rise to the primary seat of power in our country.
“Anything is possible”–this is the [...]

Uncle Sam doesn’t want the fat, stupid and criminal?

I smelled something funky right away in Larry Littlefield’s post that includes the tiresome phrase “Youth of Today” in the title (so we know right away where this is going).  He’s gracious enough to qualify his finger pointing by suggesting that while the 70% youth are apparently too slack to be military material, it may [...]

Contrast last post to this reporter’s coverage

I thought I had it tough squeezing through crowds at Union Square to get a good shot of the spectacle created by protesters supporting the Free Tibet movement. Jon Ray, a reporter for ITN in the UK, had it much worse.
Ray and a cameraman were reporting on a protest near the Olympic games in the [...]

Rallies for an independent Tibet begin on eve of Olympics

On August 7, the eve of the beginning of the 2008 Olympic Games in Beijing, hundreds of supporters of the movement to liberate Tibet from China’s authority gathered in Union Square to protest the games. A screen positioned above a group of monks, sitting in blood-red robes on the shallow steps of the park, displayed [...]

Viewing Iraqi Art

Last week I had the chance to attend an opening at Pomegranate Gallery in SoHo for the new show “Oil on Landscape: Art From Wartime Contemporaries of Baghdad,” curated by a former military officer who served in Iraq until 2007, Christopher J. Brownfield.

I reported on the story with my classmates from the CUNY J-School: [...]

Hillary Clinton’s New York Primary win

It surprised a lot of New Yorkers who had pounded the streets wearing Obama signs and stickers, but in the end, the New York primary was called for Hillary.
I headed for Queens on super Tuesday to see who might have skipped the NYGiants parade to cast their vote, while all of my classmates did [...]