Asbury Park resident Gil Caldwell and his colleague Marilyn Bennett have successfully raised all of the funds needed to back their 30-minute documentary film, “From Selma to Stonewall.” The film explores the similarities and differences between civil rights and LGBT movements in the United States. A total of 98 backers have donated $150 over the […]

Editor, the Asbury Park Sun, Some of us remember the Broadway musical, “West Side Story.” It was inspired by Shakespeare’s Romeo and Juliet. The Jets and the Sharks were two teenage gangs on the West Side of New York City. Tony was the leader of the Jets, and Maria was the sister of the leader of the Sharks. They […]

[Editor’s note: “The African Americans: Many Rivers to Cross” is a six-part, six-hour documentary series by Henry Louis Gates Jr., a Harvard professor, author and critic. The series explores the 500-year history of Africans in America. It is being aired on PBS Tuesdays at 8 p.m. from Oct. 22 through Nov. 26.] Editor, the Asbury […]

Editor, the Asbury Park Sun: Some people are trying to inject race into what happened on July 1 at the swearing in of Asbury Park’s new city council and mayor. But race has nothing to do with it. Nothing, that is, unless those responsible for the coup d’etat succeed at changing the subject. I was […]

Editor, the Asbury Park Sun: The recent events in Asbury Park — the election of Myra Campbell as mayor — and the anger that followed her election, expressed in what some would call “verbal violence,” brought to my mind the writings of William Shakespeare and a song sung by the late Etta James. Shakespeare in […]