Coronavirus in N.J.: What’s reopened, what concerts, festivals and shows are rescheduled, canceled. (Jan. 27, 2021)
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A pair of New Jersey-based theater companies will be debuting online productions over the next week spotlighting important women in history:
♦ East Lynne Theater Company will present Stephanie Garrett reading “Lynching, Our National Crime,” a speech Ida B. Wells delivered at the National Negro Conference (forerunner to the NAACP) in New York City in the spring of 1909. The prerecorded performance will premiere 8 p.m. tomorrow, Thursday, Jan. 28, on ELTC’s YouTube channel and be available for viewing through Feb. 28.
Wells’ work began in the early 1890s, and by 1909, she was the most prominent anti-lynching campaigner in the United States. She died in 1931 and received a posthumous Pulitzer Prize in 2020 for her reporting.
The ERA Is Queer and It Always Has Been
It s been a year since Virginia became the final state needed to ratify the ERA, and trans politician Danica Roem was a key factor. January 27 2021 9:09 AM EST
One year ago today, January 27, 2020, lawmakers in Virginia made history becoming the 38th and final state needed to ratify the Equal Rights Amendment to the U.S. Constitution. One of the key pro-equality legislators in Virginia was Del. Danica Roem. She’s the first out-and-seated transgender state legislator in U.S. history, proudly serving the 13th District of the Virginia House of Delegates. When I met Roem (pictured, center) in Richmond in 2019, she was wearing an ERA necklace that her mother had worn in the 1970s. It struck me as such a beautiful symbol of the unique generational nature of our now century-long fight for constitutional equality.
Student s essay inspires Jackie Robinson plaque at Victorville s Civil Rights Memorial
Student essay inspires Jackie Robinson plaque at Victorville s Civil Rights Memorial
Victorville Daily Press
A bronze plaque featuring Brooklyn Dodgers legend Jackie Robinson is now featured among other honored heroes at the Civil Rights Memorial outside Victorville City Hall.
Robinson broke major league baseball s color barrier in April 1947 when he donned a Dodgers uniform, replete with the now MLB-retired No. 42.
The name of Bradley Brook Russell is also prominently featured on the plaque, which was installed earlier this month at the garden memorial located on Civic Drive in Victorville.