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FILM: Documentary “Veselka” Celebrates Food, Community, and the Unbreakable Ukrainian Spirit

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About 35 minutes into Michael Fiore’s documentary Veselka: The Rainbow On the Corner at the Center of the World, Ukrainian members of the restaurant staff hustle to get food to customers. As they do, they talk about their boss, Veselka owner Jason Birchard, and his ability to communicate in their language. When Fiore asks one […]

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New map to detail history of slavery in our neighborhoods

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Slavery in New York? For many New Yorkers, accustomed to associating slavery with Southern plantations, the fact that slavery existed in our city is a shocking surprise. Yet for much of the 17th and 18th centuries, New York boasted the largest urban slave population in mainland North America. Enslaved people made up one-fifth the population.

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