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...nation during the 1977 World Series. “The Bronx is burning.” His signature stilted, terse cadence and morbid turn of phrase succinctly vocalized a somber resignation that threatened to stifle the once vibrant borough. Ravaged by Robert Moses’ ambitious urban planning, the Bronx??newly equipped with a gleaming expressway—literally crumbled throughout the 70s and 80s, forcing thousands of residents to seek shelter in tenements and public housing. As desperate landlords set fire to their property, hoping to reap the benefits of insurance policies, blackened, windowless towers came...
...compiled the storyline and characters of “No Child” from almost ten years of experience working as a “teaching artist” in schools across New York City. The play follows Sun as she teaches a 10th grade class at the Bronx??s Malcolm X High School to read, analyze, and ultimately perform Timberlake Wertenbaker’s 1988 play “Our Country’s Good” over the course of a six-week theater workshop. Wertenbaker’s play tells the story of a group...
...different from other inspirational films in which a coach or teacher helps inner city school kids to dream big and to find confidence and self-respect, films such as “Coach Carter” or even your own production “Knights of the South Bronx?...
...said that even after having been forced to evacuate the building, flee from the collapsing second tower and hike three hours to his home in the Bronx??on just his fourth day of high school—he is not scared to be going to school in Lower Manhattan...
...terms, in this hostile environment. F. Murray Abraham’s Professor Crawford provides Jamal with a suitably flat and pompous foil. Suspicious that Jamal’s talent for writing is illegitimate—“He’s a basketball player. From the Bronx??—Crawford endeavors to have him expelled. As Crawford’s role becomes prominent late in the film, Abraham dutifully slogs through a series of embarrassing scenes, trying to maintain some semblance of professionalism in the face of an increasingly obnoxious story...
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