Review: Lalah Hathaway inspires Latino and African American Syracuse University alums with classics, but loses them with more modern material.
On Friday night, Lalah Hathaway took roughly 1,300 concertgoers back in time to the 1980s and ‘90s. Hathaway was the musical performer for this year’s Coming Back Together reunion, which brings African American and Latino Syracuse University alumni to campus every three years for a weekend of celebration.
The former CNN and NBC anchor described her crusade to portray minorities in a positive light during her speech.
Thursday evening, Syracuse University’s Coming Back Together event hosted a former CNN and NBC anchor and Harvard graduate to kick off this year’s University Lecture Series. Soledad O’Brien led a lecture focusing on the power of storytelling.
As jazz music piped through the room, current students and alumni alike trickled into Schine Student Center’s Goldstein Auditorium. Chatter, laughter and the sound of flash going off created a hum of anticipation before O’Brien took the stage.
Starting in fall 2015, SU will reduce its number of Posse Foundation partner cities from three to one.
When Shelia Payton graduated Syracuse University in 1970, she left the campus she had called home for four years with mixed feelings.
“I had a great education. I learned a lot. It got me the career I wanted,” the 66-year-old alumna said. “But I never felt that I was part of the university.”
The panel tackled issues faced by children in single-parent homes and encouraged students to forge their own destiny.
Cameras flashed as six former Syracuse University basketball players sat at a table answering questions. But this was no post-game press conference, and basketball was rarely brought up during the two-hour conversation