2021 marks the 80th anniversary of America's entry into World War II. As we observes a Memorial Day in transition a de-escalating pandemic alongside rising anti-Semitism, political division and racism an untold story of X Troop, Jewish refugees-turned-commandos and their lifelong efforts to make a better world offers crucial insight about our many crises and our capacity for greatness, says Leah Garrett.
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City University of New York Chancellor Félix Matos Rodríguez has followed through on increasing faculty diversity. Nine new college presidents – including two Asian Americans, three African Americans and three women – were appointed in the past year. Early on in the COVID-19 pandemic, CUNY established the Chancellor’s Emergency Relief Fund with $1 million each from the Carroll and Milton Petrie Foundation and the James and Judith K. Dimon Foundation. This grew to more than $8 million by the fall and allowed CUNY to distribute emergency grants to more than 10,000 students.
2. Jim Malatras
SUNY Empire State College
Amanda Gorman’s name is on everyone’s lips. In lush yet careful language, her young voice delivered age-old yet timely wisdom at President Biden’s inauguration. As the poet Elizabeth Alexander said the next day on WNYC radio, Gorman reminded us that people need poetry. The late great poet Audre Lorde made the same point years ago in a famous essay titled “Poetry is Not a Luxury.”
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