Time is running out to check out Denzel Washington’s powerful performance in the hit revival of Fences. His acclaimed role as patriarch Troy, in the first Broadway revival of August Wilson’s classic drama, has earned him amazing critical raves, sold-out performances, and a prestigious Tony Award for Best Actor in a Drama. Fences is running […]readmore
The oil gushing from a well a mile underwater is the result of an amazing feat of engineering that private industry has achieved and only they have the engineering technology, robotic submersibles working at the drill head and controlled from a room in Houston, Texas for one example, to even begin to stop it. The […]readmore
What a strange history lesson Henry Louis Gates gives in an April 23 New York Times Op Ed. He begins “Thanks to an unlikely confluence of history and genetics – the fact that he is African-American and president – Barack Obama has a unique opportunity to reshape the debate over one of the most contentious […]readmore
Have you ever had to do something for someone you loved that you never imagined? Going out of your way and exhausting every option, draining yourself physically and emotionally? Stopping only for a second at a time to think about your actions and if they will ever really make a difference? Doubting that what you’re […]readmore
Fifteen-year-old Sojourner James, a smart and bubbly sophomore At The High School of Graphic Communication Arts (HSGCA) has many friends. But she refuses to go to her science class after reading a nasty blog in March mentioning her on the adult lurkingglass.com. High school is a place where students should feel safe, welcomed and most […]readmore
A Tribute to the Children of the Civil Rights Movement Preview Exhibit, House of Art Gallery, Brooklyn, New York March 27, 2010 (March 10, 2010) – Internationally acclaimed quilt artist Phyllis Stephens – today announced the publication of her first fine art limited-edition portfolio and quilt storybook entitled For Crying Out Loud. The creation of […]readmore
Why is it that in the 21st Century conflicts in African countries are still often portrayed as “tribal wars” in Western media and in some cases Africans are still referred to as “tribesmen”? Why do major media see no need to balance coverage of turmoil in African countries with some of the success stories that […]readmore
2010 Speak-Out Campaign Launched from Calvary Fellowship AME Church Rest-in-peace elegies and images embellish exterior walls of buildings throughout New York City. To some these are fitting work-of-art memorials to lives once lived. But to so many others, like members of the anti-violence organization PURGE, founded in 1993 by community activist and child advocate Freddie […]readmore