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Mona Lisa Saloy
& Other Renowned Artists
Will Perform at 2006 Liberty
Medal Ceremony
Honoring Presidents George H.W.
Bush and William J. Clinton
At the National Constitution
Center / on Thursday,
October 5, 2006.
Mayor
Street to Present Bon Jovi with City of Brotherly Love
Award at Gala
Mona Lisa Saloy, author of
Red Beans and Ricely Yours
(2005), will read
“WE: A Poem in Celebration of Former President George H.W.
Bush and Former President William Clinton"
Philadelphia,
PA (September 26, 2006) – A diverse line-up of star
artists, including Jon Bon Jovi, Julie Roberts, and
Cassandra Wilson, will perform at the 2006 Liberty
Medal ceremony and gala honoring Presidents George H.W.
Bush and William J. Clinton at the National
Constitution Center on Thursday, October 5, 2006.
Rock
superstar Jon Bon Jovi,
who is known for his humanitarian efforts including
building homes with Habitat for Humanity in Philadelphia
and New Orleans, will close the Liberty Medal ceremony
with his hit song, “Who Says You Can’t Go Home.” During
the Liberty Medal gala, held after the ceremony, he will
receive the City of Brotherly Love award from Mayor John
F. Street. This special award is given to individuals
for exemplary humanitarian efforts in the Greater
Philadelphia region. It was last presented in 2005 to
Sir Elton John.
Country star
Julie Roberts
will open the Liberty Medal ceremony with her rendition
of the National Anthem. This rising country star’s
debut album was nominated for two awards from the
Country Music Association and the Academy of Country
Music Awards, and she received a Breakthrough Artist
nomination from the CMT Awards.
Other
performers during the ceremony will include the Enon
Tabernacle Mass Choir from Enon Tabernacle Baptist
Church in Germantown and poet Mona Lisa Saloy, who
will read her tribute poem, “WE: A Poem in Celebration
of Former President George H.W. Bush and Former
President William Clinton, 2006 Philadelphia Liberty
Medal Recipients.”
Mona Lisa
Saloy’s latest book of narrative poems,
Red Beans and Ricely Yours,
celebrates the day-to-day lives of Black New Orleans and
the rare magic in the culture. Saloy has a personal
connection to these stories, as she had to flee New
Orleans after Katrina destroyed her home. She was
awarded the 2005 T. S. Eliot Prize for her work.
Jazz musician
Cassandra Wilson
will perform during the Liberty Medal gala, held after
the ceremony. Wilson was born and raised in
Jacksonville, Mississippi, but also lived in New Orleans
for several years, where she performed with Earl Turbinton and Ellis Marsalis. A world renowned
vocalist, songwriter, and producer, her deep musical and
cultural roots are anchored in her southern upbringing.
Presidents
George H.W. Bush and William J. Clinton—who joined
forces, transcending partisan and political differences
to do what's best for the country and the world through
their Bush-Clinton Katrina Fund and Bush-Clinton Tsunami
partnership—will be presented with the 2006 Liberty
Medal on Thursday, October 5, 2006 at the National
Constitution Center on Independence Mall in Independence
National Historical Park, in what will be the first
Liberty Medal award given under the Center’s
management.
This is the
first time both Presidents will be present to accept a
joint award for their efforts. Established in 1988 by We
the People 2000 to commemorate the bicentennial of the
U.S. Constitution, the Liberty Medal annually honors an
individual or an organization from anywhere in the world
that has “demonstrated leadership and vision in the
pursuit of liberty of conscience or freedom from
oppression, ignorance, or deprivation.” Tickets to the
ceremony, which were made available for free to the
public, are sold out. The ceremony will be broadcast
live on WPVI-TV, 6ABC at 7:00 p.m.
The National
Constitution Center, located at 525 Arch St. on
Philadelphia’s Independence Mall, is an independent,
nonpartisan, nonprofit organization dedicated to
increasing public understanding of the U.S. Constitution
and the ideas and values it represents. Opened on July
4, 2003, the Constitution Center is a museum, an
education center, and a forum for debate on
constitutional issues.
The museum
dramatically tells the story of the Constitution from
Revolutionary times to the present through more than 100
interactive, multimedia exhibits, film, photographs,
text, sculpture and artifacts, and features a powerful,
award-winning theatrical performance, “Freedom Rising”.
The Center
also houses the Annenberg Center for Education and
Outreach, which serves as the hub for national
constitutional education and debates. Also, serving as
a nonpartisan forum for constitutional discourse, the
Center presents – without endorsement – programs that
contain diverse viewpoints on a broad range of issues.
posted 27 September 2006
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The New Jim Crow
Mass Incarceration in the Age of
Colorblindness
By Michele Alexander
Contrary to the
rosy picture of race embodied in Barack
Obama's political success and Oprah
Winfrey's financial success, legal
scholar Alexander argues vigorously and
persuasively that [w]e have not ended
racial caste in America; we have merely
redesigned it. Jim Crow and legal racial
segregation has been replaced by mass
incarceration as a system of social
control (More African Americans are
under correctional control today... than
were enslaved in 1850). Alexander
reviews American racial history from the
colonies to the Clinton administration,
delineating its transformation into the
war on drugs. She offers an acute
analysis of the effect of this mass
incarceration upon former inmates who
will be discriminated against, legally,
for the rest of their lives, denied
employment, housing, education, and
public benefits. Most provocatively, she
reveals how both the move toward
colorblindness and affirmative action
may blur our vision of injustice: most
Americans know and don't know the truth
about mass incarceration—but her
carefully researched, deeply engaging,
and thoroughly readable book should
change that.—Publishers
Weekly |
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Sex at the Margins
Migration, Labour Markets and the Rescue Industry
By Laura María Agustín
This book explodes several myths: that selling sex is completely different from any other kind of work, that migrants who sell sex are passive victims and that the multitude of people out to save them are without self-interest. Laura Agustín makes a passionate case against these stereotypes, arguing that the label 'trafficked' does not accurately describe migrants' lives and that the 'rescue industry' serves to disempower them. Based on extensive research amongst both migrants who sell sex and social helpers, Sex at the Margins provides a radically different analysis. Frequently, says Agustin, migrants make rational choices to travel and work in the sex industry, and although they are treated like a marginalised group they form part of the dynamic global economy. Both powerful and controversial, this book is essential reading for all those who want to understand the increasingly important relationship between sex markets, migration and the desire for social justice. "Sex at the Margins rips apart distinctions between migrants, service work and sexual labour and reveals the utter complexity of the contemporary sex industry. This book is set to be a trailblazer in the study of sexuality."—Lisa Adkins, University of London |
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By W. E. B. Du Bois
W. E. B. Du Bois’
Arraignment and Indictment of White Civilization
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