Tag: Leslie

A friend sent me the link to The Daily Show with Leslie Jones’ take on the new Martin Luther King Jr. memorial in Boston Common. I clicked play. I listened. I even laughed, uncomfortably, at the disgust Ms. Jones’ displays. Yet before the segment played out, my levity turned sour. I...

This essay was originally published in Issue #4 “ACROSS 岸”. Order a copy now on BLURB. On April Fool’s Day, 2003, Leslie Cheung sat alone on the balcony of his room on the twenty-fourth floor of the Mandarin Oriental Hotel, observing the bustling streets of Hong Kong far ...

December 30, 1932, saw the establishment of the Soviet Union’s State Planning Committee, also known as Gosplan, which oversaw the country’s economic policies and development. On the same day, H. Leslie Adams, a future composer, pianist, educator, and arts advocate, was born on a cold, sn...