June 2019
Multi Media Event: Izzy Bleckman – On the Road, Behind the Lens
Featuring a screening of the documentary film, Risking Everything: Stories of Niagara’s Freedom Seekers and the Making of a Monument Film written and produced by Mary Roseberry and Izzy Bleckman Program moderated by Rich Kellman Multimedia event with legendary CBS ("On the Road") cameraman, Isadore "Izzy" Bleckman. The program features archival news-story footage and the theatrical debut screening of the film Risking Everything: Stories of Niagara’s Freedom Seekers and the Making of a Monument, a compelling documentary on Niagara's "Freedom…
Find out more »Author Reyna Gentin: Unreasonable Doubts
After graduating from Yale College and Yale Law School, Reyna Gentin practiced as a juvenile rights attorney with the Legal Aid Society, and then as a criminal appellate attorney with a nonprofit public defender’s office for nearly eighteen years. That job, and a number of the clients she represented, inspired the story of Unreasonable Doubts. But the novel is more than a legal thriller. Rather, it’s the story of Liana Cohen, a young woman grappling with what it means to…
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