Free Backpacks For Students

The NAACP Back to School-Stay in School Program, which was initiated in 1984, targets at-risk children, and is designed to help provide students with critical academic and social supports essential to completing high school and achieving educational excellence.

This Professor Can Write!

With New England White, another whodunit among the copper-toned rich and famous, he has really hit his stride as a novelist, having excised the excess verbiage which some say marked The Emperor of Ocean Park.

Review: Hopes & Dreams

I liked “Hopes and Dreams: The Story of Barack Obama�, but I wish it had been a little more neutral and a little less gushing.

Finding Your Middle Passage

She will tell you about Black people’s natural sense of style, strong belief in God, the consistent representation of strong Black women, and common love of dance.

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…