Monthly Archives: February 2014

Black Panther on the South Side

Former Black Panther Party Chapter founder speaks at Fountain of Life Church The ’60s and the new millennium. The West Coast and the East Coast. Seattle and Syracuse. All these came together like pieces of a jigsaw puzzle when a former Black Panther roared on Syracuse’s South Side on Feb. 23.

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Current Issue

March is National Reading Month, thus we encourage everyone on the South Side to read more. To start, dive into our March issue when it comes out March 1 or download the pdf here. And in celebration of National Reading Month, send us titles of your favorite books and quotes on Twitter @MySouthSide and tag them with #SSReads. My favorite …

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Singing for God

South Side native says she was born into a life of music and has never known any other way Markita Collins did not have a choice growing up about the role religion and music would play in her life. Her parents made those rules. “I was not born into a democracy; I was born into a dictatorship,” Collins said. “You …

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Abye Assefa on Africa: “Country” of Women

Scholar speaks on African women’s possibilities Abye Assefa went from living in a refugee camp in the African republic of Djibouti to teaching sociology at St. Lawrence University in Upstate New York, where he is an associate professor. In between, he worked in a factory assembly line in New York City and earned a Ph.D. from the State University of New York at …

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Food Co-Op Plans to Reopen in Spring

Eat to Live board says working on business plan The Eat to Live Food Cooperative on South Salina Street closed its doors due to a lack of funding after being open less than three months, but its board is addressing the issues that caused its closing in hopes of reopening it this spring. “We didn’t make the money we needed …

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Forum Asks: How Do We Get Best Redesign of I-81?

Residents hear multiple perspectives, pose questions The future of Interstate 81 remained shrouded in uncertainty following a public forum hosted by the Moving People Transportation Coalition on Thursday night. Held at the Tucker Missionary Baptist Church, 515 Oakwood Ave., at 7 p.m. Feb. 13, the forum allowed about 50 residents of Syracuse’s various neighborhoods to voice their concerns and questions …

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Anthropomorphized Felines On the Prowl at the Everson

A pack of cats have taken over the plaza adjacent to the Everson Museum of Art. The felines creep up at dusk and mysteriously vanish by 11 p.m. Attempts to physically capture the critters had been futile so far. These aren’t regular cats. Instead, they are anthropomorphic animals, meaning they possess human characteristics such as walking on two legs.

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Recap on the Caribbean Cinematic Festival

Four days. Six films. Four countries. Two directors. One actor. One curator. Four discussion moderators. When you blend all these ingredients what comes out of this mix is the Caribbean Cinematic Festival.

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Wilder Compound Kicks-Off Sustainability Series

Highlight of six sessions: Building of a 14-Foot Geodesic Dome From building websites to growing food, students from Syracuse University and the city’s high schools are practicing ways to sustain themselves and their communities through a workshop series, which began Saturday, Feb. 8, at 601 Tully. “We put all these different workshops together that would be kind of a nice …

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Syracuse Grows to hold annual Meeting

Working to cultivate food justice and community development through urban agriculture, Syracuse Grows, a grassroots coalition, will celebrate six years of advocacy, programming and education through community gardening at its annual meeting set for Feb. 11. This meeting provides the opportunity for Syracuse Grows to report on its accomplishments in 2013 and to discuss plans for the 2014 gardening season. …

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