Hudson Mohawk Magazine

Today, on the Hudson Mohawk Magazine,

We begin with the Albany School Board of Education’s Yearly Report .

Then, Sina Basila Hickey interviews Nancy Castaldo about her book

“When the Water Runs Dry”. Nancy’s work deals with local water conflicts and justice issues.

Later on, Eunice Jeong speaks with Dr. Omorogbe about her vision and development of a nonprofit organization Chasing Health.

After that, We have a live interview with Julian Adams about the nomination of a section of Lansingburgh to the State and National List of Historic Places.

Finally, In this Poetry Bucket segment Thom Frances speaks with Aron Ervin aka Algorithm about writing, work, and teaching.

Aron Ervin aka Algorhythm began putting pen to paper in elementary school and took the stage of the famed QE2 open mic on Central Ave when barely a teenager. Since then he has been all over th world performing on stages big and small as spoken word artist.

In 2012, along with the D. Colin, Elizabeth "Elizag" Gordon, and Michael "ILLipitical" Sloman, Algorhythm represented Albany for the first time at the National Poetry Slam in Charlotte, North Carolina.

In our conversation we talk about writing as a form of therapy, keeping work personal, and his life now as a teacher.

We start our chat by listening to "Still Born," a poem that he hasn't read again since it was recorded at the The Low Beat on October 2, 2018. I ask then Aron where his poem came from and what has changed in his life since then.

At the first meeting of 2023 for the Albany School Board of Education, Cecily Wilson-Turner the Superintendent of the City School District gave her yearly report with help from 2 school principals and some students.

On Monday, January 16, 2023, Martin L. King's Holiday Birthday, Hudson Mohawk Roaming Labor Correspondent Willie Terry attended the Capital District Area Labor Federation 3rd Annual Day of Service at the Regional Food Bank of Northeastern New York. Members of organized labor volunteer to help in the warehouse food produce sorting for distribution throughout the Northeast. In this labor segment, Willie spoke to Alan Mcleod, Director of Volunteers for the food bank, about the foodbank, volunteers, and MLK Day.

Environmental justice is a reoccurring theme in books by author Nancy Castaldo. Last summer she came to meet the Water Justice Fellows and learn about their work and its relationship to justice. In this interview Castaldo speaks with Sina Basila Hickey about how her book "When the World Runs Dry" allowed her to visit various communities which are living with water conflicts and justice issues.

For more on her work visit, https://nancycastaldo.com

David Schwartzman is an ecosocialist activist and Professor Emeritus at Howard University. For the weekly peace bucket at the Hudson Mohawk Magazine, he talks about the war in Ukraine with Mark Dunlea.

On this special edition of the Hudson Mohawk Magazine we hear the Rev. Martin Luther King Jr’s epic speech, “Beyond Vietnam,” recorded on April 4, 1967–one year before his murder.

Image: CC license; Martin Luther King, Jr., speaking against the Vietnam War, St. Paul Campus, University of Minnesota; 27 April 1967; author, Minnesota Historical Society

Robert Cooper is a Troy-based fine art photographer and creator of “The Gallery,” a vlog dedicated to highlighting photography as an art form. He came to Hudson Mohawk Magazine and spoke with Sina Basila Hickey and Andrea Cunliffe about photography books, his vlog, and seeing beyond the camera.

See his photos https://www.instagram.com/rcooperphotography/

and view "The Gallery" at https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QNhx_LQm-z8&list=PLyYi7LV3ruQpFaX7ZCVz0sZp3b2kv2ljx

Today, on the Hudson Mohawk Magazine:

We begin with reactions to Gov. Hochul’s State of the State.

First Mark Dunlea gets NYS Drug Policy Alliance’s reaction to the plan for substance use treatment, education and prevention

Then, Sina Basila Hickey gets the National Alliance on Mental Illness NYS’s reaction to the $1 billion dollar plan for mental health care.

Later on, Andrea Cunliffe speaks with the Alzheimer Association about their work.

After that, Brea Barthel brings us some January book suggestions from the Troy Public Library.

Finally, we speak with Robert Cooper, a local photographer and creator of the vlog “The Gallery.”

Katie Keary of the Alzheimer's Association removes some of the unknowns around this illness in her conversation with Hudson Mohawk Magazines correspondent Andrea Cunliffe. Here they discuss current breakthrough research and talk about the symptoms, the solutions. and the support.

At 10am on January 26th, Katie will be at the Troy WMCA with a presentation to give some practical information and answer some questions about Alzheimers.