Larry Lynn

Larry Lynn is a Co-Founder of AfterTalk. He has had a 40 year career in non-profit management and has served as Mayor of Grand View-on-Hudson, NY for 12 years.

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Black History Month Grief Poem by Gwendolyn Brooks

A Bronzeville Mother Loiters In Mississippi. Meanwhile, A Mississippi Mother Burns Bacon – Poem by Gwendolyn Brooks The murder of Emmett Till in 1955, and the subsequent acquittal of his murderers and public viewings of Till’s mutilated body, stirred the American consciousness and provoked outrage across the country. In 1960, Gwendolyn Brooks published her own …

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Martin Luther King: AfterTalk Weekly 2.22.23

What Martin Luther King’s Daughter Has to Say About Grief by Lynda Cheldelin Fell She was just 5-years-old when her famous daddy, Martin Luther King, Jr., was assassinated. Thanks in part to the Pulitzer Prize-winning photo of the young Bernice King on her mother’s lap, most are familiar with that story. Yet a recent New York Times  article about …

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Grieving for a Hero: AfterTalk Pandemic Weekly

Editors Note: As we approach another “anniversary” of the January 6th riot, we want to again recognize the murder of officer Brian D. Sicknick. Here’s what we said last year and an update:  “We have three pandemics sweeping the world: COVID-19, Climate Change, and Hatred. Two years ago the third of those took the like …

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