People across the country, including New York artists, have gathered in myriad ways this month to declare their support for threatened American values. Click on the photographs below to see them enlarged and learn the details.
Demonstrators hold signs and march towards Trump Tower during the Women’s March in New York, , on Saturday, Jan. 21, 2017. Photographer: Jeenah Moon/Bloomberg via Getty Images
Women’s March on Washington, January 21, 2017
Madonna and Cher backstage before speaking at the Women’s March on Washington.
Annie Golden at Ghostlight Project ceremony at Cherry Lane Thater
Writers Resist reading in front of the New York Public Library on January 16, 2017, Martin Luther King Jr. Day
Writers Resist
Chita Rivera at the Concert For America, sang: I like to be in America, Okay by me in America, Everything free in America – For a small fee in America.
At the Concert for America at Town Hall on Friday, January 20th, David Stokes Mitchell sang: America! America! God shed His grace on thee, And crown thy good with brotherhood From sea to shining sea!
At the “Inaugural Ball” at Here Arts Center, Natalie Douglass sang Nina Simone’s 1964 angry Civil Rights anthem, Mississippi Goddam: Picket lines School boy cots They try to say it’s a communist plot All I want is equality For my sister my brother my people and me Yes you lied to me all these years You told me to wash and clean my ears And talk real fine just like a lady And you’d stop calling me Sister Sadie Oh but this whole country is full of lies You’re all gonna die and die like flies I don’t trust you any more You keep on saying ‘Go slow!’ ‘Go slow!’
from the March on Charlotte. Someone knows their Mary Poppins!
Meryl Streep’s speech at the Golden Globes, January 8, 2017: nd this instinct to humiliate, when it’s modeled by someone in the public platform, by someone powerful, it filters down into everybody’s life, because it kinda gives permission for other people to do the same thing. Disrespect invites disrespect, violence incites violence. And when the powerful use their position to bully others we all lose.
Women’s March on New York City, January 21, 2017
Women’s March on New York City, January 21, 2017
Women’s March on New York City, January 21, 2017
Women’s March on New York City, January 21, 2017
