Nationally certified school psychologist, kinsmen to abolitionist Frederick Douglas and a presenter in the renowned and widely acclaimed DVD “Hidden Colors,” Dr. Umar R. Abdullah-Johnson was jointly interviewed Thursday January 26, 2012 by this writer and First Work multimedia producer Warren Mu... Read more...
Claudine tries to provide for her six children in Harlem while on welfare. She has a romance with Roop, a cheerful garbageman she meets while working on the side as a maid. Director: John Berry Writers: Lester Pine, Tina Pine Stars: Diahann Carroll, James Earl Jones and Lawrence Hilt... Read more...
"School Fight Clubs" are popular with many young Black students across America! Where are the parents, mentors, and community leaders of these children? A teenage girl is battered and beaten inside a Detroit school restroom while other girls watch and record the whole thing. However, this isn'... Read more...
A delicately told and deceptively simple story of a group of children in a depressed small town who band together to cover up a tragic mistake. Director: David Gordon Green Writer: David Gordon Green Stars: Candace Evanofski, Donald Holden and Damian Jewan Lee Read more...
Virginia Hamilton Virginia Hamilton was an award-winning author of children's books. She wrote 41 books, including M. C. Higgins, the Great, for which she won the National Book Award in 1974 and the 1975 Newbery Medal. Hamilton's first book, as a child was "The Novel". Then came Zeely... Read more...
LIBRARIES MAY seem obsolete when compared with digital media but there are still many who believe that giving a child a real book can make a difference in his life. Of those people, Vanesse Lloyd-Sgambati stands proudly as the founder of a once small book fair that is celebrating its 20th yea... Read more...
Upwards of 700 African Americans participated in the international Black Male Achievement Summit Saturday, November 12. Inspired, directed and encouraged by Open Society Foundations' Campaign for Black Male Achievement in New York, in partenership with organizations in 26 cities, these summits exp... Read more...
Closing schools doesn't save very much money in the context of an urban district's budget, and selling or leasing surplus school buildings tends to be difficult because they're often old and in struggling neighborhoods, a recent report from a Philadelphia research group says. On the... Read more...
Most of Generation Y have come in contact with cyberbullying. We often blame the problem on teenagers alone - but is this actually the case? The prospect of cyberbullying is becoming an ingrained part of the Generation Y online experience. Anyone can be targeted — whether the high school stu... Read more...