Crystal Sarakas

1 month ago | wskg.org | Crystal Sarakas

A new statue of abolitionist and activist Harriet Tubman was unveiled Friday in downtown Binghamton. The statue is part of the Downtown Binghamton Freedom Trail, a public trail that marks stops along the Underground Railroad, as well as other anti-slavery and civil rights sites. Professor Anne Bailey is the director of the Harriet Tubman Center at Binghamton University. The statue is the result of four years of work by the center.

2 months ago | wskg.org | Crystal Sarakas

There’s an image that many of us have of the Underground Railroad: enslaved people fleeing at night, being hunted by slave catchers, heading northward through a series of tunnels and hidden rooms. And while those moments did exist, they have somewhat overshadowed what the Underground Railroad was really about: the people. Filmmaker Brian Frey’s new documentary, North to Freedom, tells the more complicated and human story of the Underground Railroad.

Sep 27, 2024 | wskg.org | Crystal Sarakas

American folk standards like "Shenandoah" and "Wayfaring Stranger" have been covered a thousand different ways. But American Patchwork Quartet has managed to make these cherished but familiar songs sound new again. Falu Shah is a classically trained Hindustani vocalist. It was during a conversation with Clay Ross, now a fellow member of American Patchwork Quartet, that the idea of fusing traditional American folk songs with the sound of Indian classical music first happened.

Dec 12, 2023 | wskg.org | Crystal Sarakas

Jake Bittle has a different word for climate migration. He calls it climate displacement. "Migration seems to imply a coordinated movement of people from one place to another. And it's usually voluntary, people want to get to a specific place. And what I was encountering was that people left for short amounts of time, they never really thought that they were going to leave permanently, but then they ended up leaving their home or they left multiple times.

Oct 12, 2023 | wskg.org | Crystal Sarakas

In February 1944, a B-25 Liberator took off from an airfield in Westover, Massachusetts on a routine training flight. It never returned. In Tom Wilber's latest book, Vanishing Point, he unravels the night the bomber known as "Getaway Gertie" went missing, and traces what is known of the eight men whose lives were lost. Today, the wreckage of plane is believed to be in Lake Ontario, and recent advancements in technology may mean that the plane is located one day soon.