Posts Tagged ‘Fordham University’
Uncle Bob
When I was working on my story last month about Denzel Washington’s work while a student at Fordham and now on Broadway in Othello, I kept running across the name of a theater professor: Robert Stone. He had been one of Washington’s acting teachers and the two performed together in Fordham’s production of Othello. Stone,…
Read MoreNurith Aviv’s Dual Identities and Dueling Languages
Language is a contradiction: At once home and foreign, a unifier and a divider, a liberator and an oppressor. This is the landscape that groundbreaking French filmmaker Nurith Aviv paints in her compelling 2004 documentary, “Misafa Lesafa,” “From Language to Language.” The film was screened at the Center for Jewish History in New York on…
Read MoreSr. Helen Prejean to Fordham Graduates: “I have nothing for you but fire.”
The Catholic nun, author of “Dead Man Walking,” and activist against capital punishment: “I invite you to do civic discourse—not name-calling and demeaning and argument.”
Read MoreWe Make the Path by Walking
A Fordham student reflects on the start of a synodal journey.
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