This is an emerging, rapidly evolving situation and CDC will provide updated information as it becomes available, in addition to updated guidance. Background CDC is responding to an outbreak of respiratory disease caused by a novel (new) coronavirus that was first detected in Wuhan City, Hubei Province, China and which has now been detected in […]readmore
Biographer Shares Thoughts on Kobe Bryant & Other Iconic Athletes We phoned Brooklyn’s Boys & Girls High School alum Blaine Robinson for assistance in finding an expert on Kobe. In less than two hours, we were on the phone with Blaine’s friend and Bryant’s biographer Roland Lazenby. Amid dozens of interviews with print, broadcast and […]readmore
Founding Fathers: This year’s annual May “Rediscovering Lost Values” tour of South-based shrines to the Civil Rights movement was — in the words of diarist Glen Beck — “particularly poignant.” Actually, those words were a description of Tour students standing on the exterior landing of the Dexter Historic King Memorial Church in Montgomery, Alabama, with […]readmore
BAVC’s 2019 “Rediscovering Lost Values” Tour through The South Offered a Protector Insights into Himself and Others… Pt. I of a Multi-Part Series I had been asked to provide a safe environment and transportation for a four-day event by my friend of over twenty years, Reverend Taharka Robinson. Hark; his incredibly intelligent, […]readmore
By Basir Mchawi Back in March, parents, students and educational advocates shuddered as the dismal results of the Specialized High School Admissions Test (SHSAT) were made public. The test scores and admissions prospects for Black and Latino students get worse every year and the results are accompanied by handwringing and disbelief. I graduated from Bronx […]readmore
…Of Roots & Rivers Bernice Elizabeth Green and Lynne Buchanan This spring, photographer/essayist Lynne Buchanan and I have exchanged e-mails about America’s endangered rivers. We explored ways to get the word out to our respective publics about a challenge that may not appear to be as near to our lives as education, economics, housing, racism, […]readmore
The Weeksville Heritage Center was founded in 1838 to preserve the history of Americans of African descent who formed the community they named Weeksville. These pioneers, whose spirits can be felt in the remaining Hunterfly Road Houses where they lived, are now honored with a contemporary Center that remembers their legacy and celebrates their […]readmore
Urban Ecology Hattie Carthan passed April 23, 1984. This week marks the anniversary of her transitioning, and there’s the thought that because of her work, hundreds of trees grow in an area of Brooklyn where there once was blight. The caretakers of her legacy today are young people who are committed with the same fervency, […]readmore
