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In spite of hours of taping at Radio City Music Hall for Celebrity Jeopardy on which he’s playing for charity, CSI: NY co-star, Hill Harper was still determined to show up at Teen Awareness Day and bring a message to the kids.

This community event is designed to promote literacy and literary endeavors on Long Island. It is also an opportunity for authors to encourage our youth and dialogue with the community. Nationally acclaimed author, Donna Hill, will be among the many noted African American and Hispanic authors available for book signing.

The question which pops into this critic’s mind is why is there a glaring absence of similar worthwhile programming geared towards African-Americans, while BET and MTV permeate the airwaves with such lowest common denominator entertainment as Lil Kim’s Countdown to Lockdown, Flavor Flav’s Flavor of Love, and DMX’s The Soul of a Man?

Watson is one of the most sought after speakers in America and was named one of the 50 best speakers in America by network guru George Fraser in his best selling and critically acclaimed book Success Runs In Our Race.

The I Have a Dream Foundation’s mission is to motivate and empower children, referred to as “Dreamers,� from low-income communities to reach their education and career goals by providing a long-term program, 12-15 years, of mentoring, tutoring and enrichment as well as tuition assistance for higher education

As a result, Samori regarded economic imperialist wars as unjust wars but was very supportive of conflicts where impoverished Black people, and other peoples of color, were willing to defend themselves against far more military advanced personnel forces and seemingly endless amounts of sophisticated weaponry and synchronized communications systems. But he always believed, and even knew, that in spite of these overwhelming odds, the oppressed people were destined to win. And he tried to do his part to guarantee the victory

Charter Day commemorates the signing of the University’s charter, which was enacted by Congress and subsequently approved by President Andrew Johnson on March 2, 1867. During the 82nd Annual Charter Day Gala at the Hilton Washington and Towers Hotel on Saturday, March 4, the University honored Potomac Electric Power Company with the 2006 Corporate Award.

I believe that after 30 years of hip-hop as a nation we should have the sophistication to accept that their are distinctions between the corporate manifestation of hip-hop, sold as a commodity and package with sensational race, sex and violent imagery, and the hip-hop culture that kids are living everyday at a local level, which often doesn’t dabble in that terrain.

The program uses problem-based, experiential learning, and strong leadership training to prepare educators to serve as productive school leaders transforming the City’s schools into environments where all students can succeed.