NAACP Membership: It’s Not About Color By Monica Calzolari I just joined the Oneonta Chapter of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People after hearing Professor Gretchen Sorin speak about her book and documentary film by the same name, “Driving While Black.” I joined because I support equality and I was appalled by what I learned during her presentation at SUNY Oneonta’s Center for Racial Justice and Inclusive Excellence on October 13. Although I am painfully aware that…
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HAPPENIN’ OTSEGO for THURSDAY, OCTOBER 13 Lecture With Gretchen Sorin, Author ‘Driving While Black’ DRIVING WHILE BLACK – 7 – 9 p.m. Distinguished professor Gretchin Sorin presents on her seminal work ‘Driving While Black: African American Travel and the Road to Civil Rights’ about how the car gave some escape from the Jim Crow Laws. She will also be showing clips from the Emmy winning documentary based on her work. Free, open to the public. Lee Hall Great Room, SUNY Oneonta.…
History Day comes alive with Cooperstown Grad Program leadership By Tara Barnwell • Special to www.AllOTSEGO.com The Cooperstown Graduate Program last week hosted popular Travel Channel host Don Wildman to kick off its new leadership role in New York’s National History Day competition. “I went after it!” said Cooperstown Graduate Program (CGP) Director Gretchen Sorin. “The New York State Historical Association sponsored the History Day for many years. Everyone in the state wanted it in their backyard, but I think…
AllOtsego People For Sorins, film success is contagious By GREG KLEIN • Special to www.AllOTSEGO.com For Cooperstown’s Gretchen Sorin, the only thing that might top the success she has had in the past two years is seeing one of her children share in and build off of that success. Sorin, the director of the Cooperstown Graduate Program, author of the best seller, “Driving While Black, African American Travel and the Road to Civil Rights,” and co-director of the PBS documentary…
‘DRIVING WHILE BLACK’ HEADLINED Gretchen Sorin In Line For National Recognition COOPERSTOWN – SUNY Oneonta Distinguished Professor Gretchen Sullivan Sorin is a finalist for a 2021 NAACP Image Award in the category of Outstanding Literary Work – Non-Fiction for her book “Driving While Black” (W. W. Norton & Company). The 52nd NAACP Image Awards ceremony will air live on BET March 27 at 8 p.m. “I am tremendously honored and very grateful,” said Sorin, director of the Cooperstown Graduate School…
Soren’s ‘Driving While Black’ Airs Tonight At 9 On WSKG COOPERSTOWN – “Driving While Black: Race, Space & Mobility,” based on the book by Gretchen Sorin, Cooperstown Graduate Program director, will be broadcast at 9 p.m. this evening on WSKG-TV. It is also available on the PBS streaming service. The documentary, directed by Ken Burns’ brother Ric, is based on Sorin’s “Driving While Black: African American Travel & the Road to Civil Rights,” published in 2020. The book grew out…
HAPPENIN’ OTSEGO for WEDNESDAY, JANUARY 27 ‘Cooperstown Reflects’ Continues COOPERSTOWN REFLECTS – 7 p.m. Library Anti-Racism series continues with “Cooperstown Reflects on Racism in Arts and Monuments.” Panel includes Eva Fognell, Thaw Collection of Native American Art, Fenimore Museum; Tom Heitz/Sharon Stuart, Otsego town co-historian; CGP Director Gretchen Sorin, and Glimmerglass Festival Art & General Director Francesca Zambello. Free, registration required. Presented by Friends of the Village Library of Cooperstown. 607-547-8344 or visit www.eventbrite.com/o/friends-of-the-village-library-23034666815…
This Weekend, Watch 27 Movies For $50 By LIBBY CUDMORE • Special to www. AllOTSEGO.com COOPERSTOWN – Whenever Gretchen Sorin does an interview for film “Driving While Black,” she likes to consult her own copy of The Negro Motorist Guide aka The Green Book. “I like to see if there are any places listed where I’m doing the interview,” she said. “But so few of them are extant.” In Albany, she found, an entire neighborhood had been hidden, buried underneath…
COVID RETREATS Graduate Students Adults, Don’t Need To Be Babied Sorin Convinces SUNY To Keep CGP Open By LIBBY CUDMORE • Special to www.AllOTSEGO.com COOPERSTOWN – There’s a difference between grads and undergrads, said Gretchen Sorin, Cooperstown Graduate Program director. “The graduate students are adults,” she said. “They know how to behave. The undergrads are less grown-up.” Following SUNY Chancellor Jim Malatras’ announcement Thursday, Sept. 3, that the SUNY Oneonta campus would close for the remainder of the semester, students reached…
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