The Stand’s South Side Photo Walk welcomed 21 participants for our annual event held Saturday, July 18. A Photo Walk is a social photography event where photographers get together to explore a neighborhood, shoot photos and practice their skills. Marilu Lopez-Fretts served as this year’s Photo Walk leader, opening the day’s event with a photo lesson. Next, participants followed a path through the …

ITC media students produce video to help teens interact with officers

Reviving Place Project seeks feedback from South Side residents The South Side neighborhood was put under a microscope June 16 at the Southwest Community Center as residents were prompted to assume a role analogous to that of microbiologists examining a Petri dish. Funded by a grant from the Environmental Protection Agency, a crew from the local Onondaga Environmental Institute made …

For Lamique Agard and Shawn Newdy, who moved to Syracuse from New York City three weeks ago, Saturday’s Juneteenth Celebration represented what drew them to make the move. “There’s a feeling of family, of close knit community here,” Newdy said. “That’s what we love about Syracuse.” Their 4-year-old nephew Cameron enjoyed the kids’ game section, which included a bouncy house …

When Cathy Lunetta checked the odometer in her car it marked 308 extra miles since she had left home. That was the distance that she logged traveling to take part in the 2nd Annual Bike for Brady, a fund-raiser to benefit the Brady Faith Center, an outreach ministry of the Roman Catholic Diocese of Syracuse for the South Side. She is …

The Stand calls on fathers to make their voices heard The Stand recently launched a new series on Fatherhood, and we want local fathers to contribute. This summer, we will collect submissions of letters to one’s child. The idea is simple: If it was your last moments here on Earth and you were given the opportunity to write a letter to …

Annual event marks 150th anniversary of Juneteenth Celebration Grammy-nominated R&B artist Angie Stone will be in Syracuse this Saturday for the celebration of the 150th anniversary of Juneteenth. The event, which commemorates the day slaves in Texas learned they were free two years after emancipation, starts at noon June 13 in Clinton Square downtown and runs until 10 p.m. As one …

Literacy lessons are still part of life for mother of six in Syracuse who never gave up on her education   A young black girl in Ellabell, Georgia, wanted to learn. It was the 1960s, and the Supreme Court had declared in the mid-1950s that separate was not equal. She was bused from her tiny town, not far from Savannah, …

“Do you have a car?” It was the first question he was asked almost every job interview. And James Manyang was losing out on jobs because he didn’t. Eventually, he moved to Syracuse from Albany when a family friend promised him a job here. Manyang, a refugee from South Sudan arrived in the United States in 2012. He’s taking care …

Salina Crossing project to offer residental and business space