A new series of glass mosaics in the 167th Street station on the B and D lines honors famed Bronxites, including Audre Lorde ’60LS, the poet, writer, and lesbian feminist activist. A crusader against racism, sexism, and homophobia, Lorde, who died of cancer in 1992 at age fifty-eight, called poetry “part of my weaponry.”
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Sklarek ’50GSAPP, the first Black woman to earn an architecture degree from Columbia, broke down walls and built a legacy