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I Have A Proposal for Barack Obama

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On the defacing of “ReflectingR...

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VILLA and the trashing of a movement

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The New Life Food Cupboard on Monroe Ave...

The Chinese People Deserve Gratitude

Death past and present by Leslie Kramer

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Theodicy and the Coronavirus

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Sinking in a Sea of Mediocrity

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Assault on Capitol is not about Black Lives Matter
by [email protected] | Jan 10, 2021 | Social Issues | 0 |
David Kramer at the 5/31/20 Black Lives Matter rally in Martin Luther King Jr. Memorial Park...
Read More(Un) Writing an old wrong in Brighton’s Meadowbrook neighborhood and a look back at B.H.S. in the late 70’s and early 80’s
by [email protected] | Dec 29, 2020 | Social Issues | 7 |
Antlers Road in Meadowbrook, 9/27/20 [Photo: David Kramer] Last September, my mother walked a few...
Read MoreHundreds receive rapid covid-19 testing at Temple B’rith Kodesh in Brighton
by [email protected] | Dec 17, 2020 | Social Issues | 0 |
Temple B’rith Kodesh, 2131 Elmwood Ave [Photos: David Kramer 12/17] Earlier today, when at...
Read MoreI Have A Proposal for Barack Obama
by [email protected] | Nov 23, 2020 | Social Issues | 0 |
Photos provided by Evalyn Gleason (in green) from her meeting with President Obama at Magnolia’s...
Read MoreWhat’s Wrong With Mattel’s New Susan B. Anthony Doll?
by [email protected] | Oct 27, 2020 | Social Issues | 0 |
Deborah Lindenau with Susan B (Marjorie Goldman) at the National Susan B. Anthony Museum &...
Read MoreOnly Parents Can Stop Children’s Addiction to Social Media
by [email protected] | Oct 18, 2020 | Social Issues | 0 |
(left) daughter Audrey Boyce; (right) mother Leslie Kramer at the Strong International Museum of...
Read MoreMore from Nancy O’Donnell Hale on Nathaniel Rochester: “Defaced, erased, should statue be replaced?”
by [email protected] | Sep 23, 2020 | Social Issues | 0 |
6/26/20, Mt. Hope Cemetery. Nancy O’Donnell Hale at the gravesite of Nathaniel Rochester...
Read MoreThe South Wedge Food Program helps people through the pandemic and beyond
by [email protected] | Sep 21, 2020 | Social Issues | 0 |
Josh Knoblock, Manager, South Wedge Food Program, 68 Ashland St. outside the Calvary Presbyterian...
Read MoreWhen Washington Square Park felt like Tiananmen Square
by [email protected] | Sep 11, 2020 | Social Issues | 0 |
The bus stop on Court Street [Photo: David Kramer, 9/4/20] Last Friday, September the 4th, I heard...
Read MoreIf Nathaniel must stay, add Ned to South Wedge Monument to City Founder by Nancy O’Donnell Hale
by [email protected] | Jun 28, 2020 | Social Issues | 0 |
6/26/20, Mt. Hope Cemetery. Nancy O’Donnell Hale at the gravesite of Nathaniel Rochester...
Read MoreOn the Spray Painting of “Reflecting” by John Hoffman
by [email protected] | Jun 24, 2020 | Social Issues | 0 |
John Hoffman. 6/24/20, Nathaniel Square, 62 Alexander Street [Photo: David Kramer] Several days...
Read MoreAn open invitation to a conversation in Nathaniel Square
by [email protected] | Jun 21, 2020 | Social Issues | 11 |
6/19/20. Nathaniel Square Park, 62 Alexander Street. To the right of the sculpture, David Kramer,...
Read MoreOn the defacing of “Reflecting” in Nathaniel Square and restoring the grave of “America’s first professional racist” in Mt. Hope Cemetery
by [email protected] | Jun 18, 2020 | Social Issues | 2 |
6/18/20. Reflecting by Pepsy Kettavong, Nathaniel Square, 62 Alexander Street. See Reflecting on...
Read MoreWhat is it to be “Woke?”
by [email protected] | Jun 14, 2020 | Social Issues | 0 |
6/13/20. (l-r) Chennel Anderson, Frederick Douglass and Kelly Linn Kreider. Olivia Kim’s...
Read MoreSanctioned Self Care for Police is Part of the Solution
by [email protected] | Jun 12, 2020 | Social Issues | 0 |
6/5/20, Rochester Police Officers at the Black Lives STILL Matter demonstration on West Main...
Read MoreThe good more than overshadowing the bad on Monroe Avenue and Liberty Pole Way
by [email protected] | Jun 6, 2020 | Social Issues | 4 |
Monroe Avenue, 6/6/20. Jon Finlayson @JawnType (left) and Justin Suarez @aerosolkingdom. Except...
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