Finding Common Ground and Love in Harlem
April Hunt and June Berry come from different worlds. Ms. Hunt is an art-world fixture and D.J., and Ms. Berry is a child welfare consultant and chef. The two bonded over their mutual love for music and food.
April Hunt, left, and June Berry married Feb. 12 under a special tree on Randalls Island in New York.Credit.Jutharat Pinyodoonyachet for The New York Times
By Tammy La Gorce
March 12, 2021
When telling the story of their relationship, April Hunt and June Berry sometimes leave out a detail the listener is bound to find significant. “We forgot to tell you that a portrait of us was hanging in the National Gallery in Washington,” Ms. Hunt said the day before her Feb. 12 wedding to Ms. Berry.
Keep an eye on these 4 companies and their diversity efforts By Khristopher J. Brooks Bank of America pledges $25M to address racial inequities
One effect of the protests that swept the U.S. after a Minneapolis police officer killed George Floyd last year was a reckoning in corporate America with the searing impact of racism. Yet while numerous business leaders have pledged to uplift communities of color and help erase racial inequities, a handful of companies are projected to make the biggest leaps in diversity and inclusion: Bank of America, Netflix, UPS and Walmart.
One clear common denominator among the four: a genuine push to hire more people of color. Also, these companies have the scale to fund race-focused initiatives nationwide. Perhaps most important is their potential for diversifying management so that people of color can become a driving force for internal change, with minority executives bringing fresh ideas to the table and, in doing so, knocki
Carnegie Hall s Early Childhood Programs Reach Hundreds of Families Around the World
hrough April 3, videos premiere each Saturday on the Hall’s Facebook and YouTube page channels, as part of Learn with Carnegie Hall.by BWW News Desk
Throughout the season, hundreds of families and children will have opportunities for free musical learning, play, discovery, and connection through Carnegie Hall Weill Music Institute s early childhood programs. A new video series, Sing with Carnegie Hall, features weekly interactive sing-alongs-covering a range of topics including rhythm, play, feelings, and imagination-to encourage connection, well-being, and creativity for families with little ones (ages 2-5) at home. Each video is hosted by Carnegie Hall teaching artist Emily Eagen and features special guests-including Grammy nominated singers Falu Shah and Sonia De Los Santos-leading families in original and beloved songs from around the globe. Through April 3, videos premiere each Saturda
Teaching Students A New Black History
By Anya Kamenetz
February 25, 2021
When you think of the history of Black education in the United States, you might think of
Brown vs. Board of Education and the fight to integrate public schools. But there’s a parallel history too, of Black people pooling their resources to educate and empower themselves independently.
Enslaved people learned to read and write whenever and wherever they could, often in secret and against the law. “In accomplishing this, I was compelled to resort to various stratagems,” like convincing white children to help him, wrote Frederick Douglass. “I had no regular teacher.”
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