Mack-Harvin: One for the Books

From Crown Heights Librarian to Executive Director of the entire Brooklyn Public Library system, Dionne Mack-Harvin is bringing it.

Ofili: Portrait Of Young Writer

Ofili: “This book conveys a message of survival and I do consider myself someone who has consistently been able to transform venom into adrenalin. This is definitely just the beginning stages and I feel that the sky is the limit. I am working hard everyday, I stay on the grind, I don’t sleep. Sleep is forbidden as Diddy once said.â€?

Jordan’s Laws of Thinking

“I minister to and prophesize to people,� claimed Jordan who began prophesizing at age 15 after a spirit appeared to him in a dream and revealed his path.

Terrie Williams On Fire

Her passion to help her people comes from a sincere place. “When the opportunity arises, give it your all to help someone else.� This is Terrie’s mantra; her creed which . . .

New Fiction: “Judge Not!�

To make matters worse, Laura’s abusive, cheating, and millionaire ex-husband unjustly had Laura committed to a mental institution. Filled with overpowering rage, and accompanied by her wealthy, plotting-dirty best friend, Marseille Cooper, whose M.O. is to “do unto others before they do unto you,â€? Laura intends to even the score…

Georgetown Summer Internships

Summ: The courses in government and economics are designed to provide these young men with the skills necessary to critically analyze the world’s problems while adhering to a deep respect for civil liberties. The application deadline is February 1.

Visions: Seeing Beyond Your Circumstance

How do you see past your own circumstance? What is my role in this world? What is my contribution going to be? These are very difficult questions for a thinking young person to answer. I mean sometimes I have a hard time. You are inundated with images of fast money, cars, and homes…

Joshua Bell Surprises PenPals

Grammy Award-winning violinist Joshua Bell paid a surprise visit to the 5th graders at Mt. Carmel-Holy Rosary in East Harlem on Wednesday, December 20th. The students had written to Bell after learning about him while studying the violin through the Education Through Music program.

Honoring Parks’ Legacy

Dr. Stephen J. Sweeny, CNR president; Toni Parks, Curator; and Elza Dinwiddie-Boyd, Dean of the School of New Resources at CNR. They are standing next to a painting of Gordon Parks as a young man.

Blacks: Shame On Us

If Michael Sandy would have been heterosexual, would that have brought out the Rev. Jesse Jackson’s and the Rev. Al Sharpton’s of Black America? Would that have made it okay for the NAACP to get involved and for other Black civil rights groups to take notice? I am beginning to think so.