Mayor Adams and New York City’s Community Affairs Unit is asking community leaders to sign a unity letter that describes the city coming together in peace and purpose.

Unity Letter From Mayor Eric Adams

A DECLARATION OF PEACE AND PURPOSE

We, the undersigned Americans, publicly commit ourselves to a more peaceful political process that rejects the words, images, and narratives of hate and violence.

This is a declaration of peace and purpose, a commitment to building a more perfect union. While we may disagree on policy, we pledge to work together across personal and party lines to de-escalate the divisiveness that has led to hateful rhetoric and hateful action, online and in real life. Though we have seen an outpouring of grief and despair across the nation, we have also seen more calls for violence, retribution, and vengeance.

 We cannot allow the single, horrifying act of political violence against former President Trump this past weekend to escalate into greater strife and disunity.

 We must say enough. Enough violent political rhetoric. Enough pitting one group of Americans against another. And enough spreading this kind of hate online and in real life.

 Together, we call on every elected official, party operative, public figure, and committed citizen to join us in committing to creating a safer, stronger, more peaceful democracy through our words and actions. We seek nothing less than the mass de-escalation of the current toxic political rhetoric, and we ask friends, citizens, and our supporters to do the same.

 As Americans, we must honor the will of our founders, and put ourselves to the task of working out our differences through the democratic process. That includes engaging in thoughtful debate and then ensuring the safety of our polling places, respecting the will of the voters, and partaking in the peaceful transfer of power.

 Each one of these signatures will help renew and rebuild the foundations of our democracy, one that has been a beacon for freedom, equality, and justice across the globe.

 Our democracy can only flourish when we live out those enduring civic values and recommit to a free, fair, and peaceful political process, in which all Americans can participate as voters, advocates, and candidates without fear of violence or intimidation.

 As we reject violence, so too do we embrace hope and work for change, with the goal of uniting as one nation in the days and years to come.

Link to the Peace and Purpose Letter

For any questions, please contact:

Tiffany Brown: [email protected]

Phone:

212-341-9065

Cell: 347-939-3984

Original Zinc Printer’s Block of Cotton Comes to Harlem

A 1970 movie printer’s block that would have been used in a black and white newspaper in an ad for the film. Once the ad run ended, virtually all of these printing blocks were thrown out.

The block is a chunk of wood on which a zinc (reversed for printing) image is visible. The title, the massive afro, and the two leading actors’ names are all identifiable.

This one remains and is now in the collection of Fordham University’s Archives and Special Collections.

See the original motion picture score’s (color) artwork, below: