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Syracuse University honors Ruby Dee, Ossie Davis with the Chancellor’s Medal for Outstanding AchievementApril 17, 2006Sara Millersemortim@syr.edu On Tuesday, April 18, Ruby Dee, playwright, poet and award-winning actress, and her late husband, Ossie Davis, actor, screenwriter and director, will be…

Light Work to host artist lecture by photographer Lonnie Graham April 5March 29, 2006Jessica Heckmanjhheckma@syr.edu The Light Work gallery, located at 316 Waverly Ave., will host a lecture by renowned photographer Lonnie Graham April 5 at 5:30 p.m. in Watson…

Chuck D. headlines Grassroots Media ConventionMarch 28, 2006SU News ServicesSUnews@syr.edu Chuck D., founder of the legendary hip-hop group Public Enemy, will be the keynote speaker at the Grassroots Media Convention, hosted by the Black Voice, a student publication, and the…

Senegalese novelist, screenwriter, journalist Boubacar Boris Diop visits SU for readings, lectures and screeningsMarch 28, 2006Carol K. Masiclatclkim@syr.edu Internationally renowned Senegalese novelist, journalist and screenwriter Boubacar Boris Diop, will visit Syracuse University for a special series of readings, lectures, screenings…

CAPS ceremony recognizes SU students, organizations for community engagement activities March 24, 2006Kelly Homan Rodoskikahoman@syr.edu The Syracuse University community will come together on Monday, March 27, to celebrate the positive power of community service and the impact that SU student…

Founder of Black Entertainment Television to inspire entrepreneurs at 2006 WISE ConferenceMarch 21, 2006Amy Schmitzaemehrin@syr.edu A quarter of a century ago, Sheila C. Johnson made history. She, and then-husband Robert L. Johnson, started a weekly two-hour Friday night television network…

March 28 play reading to honor legacy of SU great Wilmeth Sidat-Singh ’39March 17, 2006Sara Millersemortim@syr.edu Wilmeth Sidat-Singh ’39 was a great athlete and an individual of extraordinary courage. On Tuesday, March 28, Sidat-Singh’s legacy will be honored at a…

First high school course in cyber security made possible through unique partnership of SU, U.S. Air Force and Rome Catholic SchoolMarch 14, 2006Kelly Homan Rodoskikahoman@syr.edu At Rome Catholic School (RCS), in Rome, N.Y., high school students now have the opportunity…

Expressive Arts Symposium explores concepts of transationalism, citizenship from artistic perspective March 24-25March 13, 2006Carol K. Masiclatclkim@syr.edu The Ray Smith Symposium series, under the Humanities Council in The College of Arts and Sciences at Syracuse University, presents “Insurgent Cross-Cultural Conversations…

Judge Langston McKinney to be honored by SU studentsMarch 10, 2006SU News ServicesSUnews@syr.edu Syracuse City Court Judge Langston McKinney will receive Syracuse University’s Dan and Mary Lou Rubenstein Social Justice Award at a ceremony April 5 at 6 p.m. in…