Black Boxes

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All alone in her life for the first time, a woman badly abused and neglected is forced to rely on herself for the family's survival. Beginning her teaching career in the early '60s, the start of the civil rights movement, in East Harlem, she saw that fuel was added to the tumult of those days by the teacher strike which shocked the community. She left upon the birth of her daughter, Anastasia, in 1972. She then spent a year in Athens, Greece, confronting unknown places and customs, tasting both bitter and sweet experiences. Upon her return to New York City, she began the uphill fight against abuse and tried to re-establish her life and her career and raise her young children. A dramatic appearance in court followed. In 1991, she had the experience of seeing her daughter, Anastasia, awarded the Journalist of the Year Award upon her graduation from Fordham University.