Short Reads – SYLVIA A. HARVEY (SAH)

The Toll Mass Incarceration Takes on Families

In the late 1980s, it was a weekly ritual for my four brothers and I. Something I relished more than playing hide-and-seek, and I loved that game. I sat on my grandmother’s sofa waiting forContinue reading

Culture

The Legacy of the Pandemic

Few aspects of life are untouched by coronavirus and resulting global lockdowns. From an emerging “quarantine state of mind” to a new era of frugality to expanding how we vote, here’s what next. Part ofContinue reading

Policy

The Gig Economy

Nelson Gamio gets up at 6:30 a.m. each morning. After putting on his usual t-shirt and jeans, he sits in the chair and laces up his paint-splattered boots. He has just enough time to runContinue reading

Culture

A Gentrified Mind? Ask the Nomad Junkie

A Punk Rock band was an amped backdrop to a riveting poetic monologue that ripped into the air and put gentrification in a 50-minute choke-hold. Gentrified Minds (the NY Horror, Volume 2) is a protestContinue reading

Gentrification

If You Build It, Will They Come?

It's not uncommon for withering brown bananas to lay limp on the counter of my local bodega; or for the often-sticky floors to claim the soles of my shoes; or for the shelves to holdContinue reading

Reviews

RUINED: Congolese Diamonds in a Rough (a play review)

“The door never closes at Mama’s Place.” Despite the sirens of gunfire and bloodshed taking place in the rainforest of the Democratic Republic of the Congo, patrons retreat to Mama’s Place, where they can escapeContinue reading

Event Coverage

Put Children Above Politics, Urges Michelle Rhee ’92

Michelle Rhee '92 discusses American education in New York City Feb. 5. Self-defined "radical" education reformer Michelle Rhee '92 met rousing applause Feb. 5 at the Cornell Club in New York City. Rhee, whose talkContinue reading

Event Coverage

Cornell Tech designed ‘for next century’

With its innovative approach to sustainable design, the new Cornell NYC Tech campus on Roosevelt Island will be more than another ivory tower, as its forward-leaning design has innovative building technologies. The Symposium on ResilientContinue reading

Gentrification

An Honest Look at Bed-Stuy

One photographer allows his lens to enunciate the meaning of Bedford-Stuyvesant, where the rounded brown belly of a pregnant mother speaks of the future, Muslim women adorned in burkas speak about faith, and the EgyptianContinue reading

Event Coverage

Cornell Tech students show off their innovations

In its quest to foster a culture of innovation and to blend fundamental academic work and practical applied work with an eye on the future of business, technology and entrepreneurship, Cornell Tech hosted its secondContinue reading

Category: Short Reads

The Toll Mass Incarceration Takes on Families

The Legacy of the Pandemic

The Gig Economy

A Gentrified Mind? Ask the Nomad Junkie

If You Build It, Will They Come?

RUINED: Congolese Diamonds in a Rough (a play review)

Put Children Above Politics, Urges Michelle Rhee ’92

Cornell Tech designed ‘for next century’

An Honest Look at Bed-Stuy

Cornell Tech students show off their innovations

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