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I entered the gallery and saw the photographs in the kind of perfect clarity only a personal viewing can provide. Before me were six achingly poignant moments of quotidian life frozen in time and rendered significant.
So while Wall Street is celebrating a record year, Fifth Avenue boutiques have recovered and the tony Upper East Side has continued on in its well-heeled way, a few stops up the 6 train the Bronx is reeling.
While the flurry of films snapped up by distributors at this year's Sundance is indicative of a rejuvenated film industry, it is the clarity of spirit that will inspire audiences to reassess our values.
A common complaint from pundits is that the images we're given in popular culture are racist. I am not about to address this concern. But. After playi...
In less than two years, Music Unites has grown exponentially and expanded a number of its programs. The New York-based non-profit has grown from an id...
Here we are, a white woman from Connecticut and two Black teens from the South Bronx in a classroom together, each of us stepping into the space between the imaginary and the real in order to learn what it means to become Jewish.
I can't see them, but I know they're everywhere. A WPIX headline screamed bed bugs have reached an "epidemic scale!" And that was based on a survey of pest control companies.
While I'm glad that the work of this new group of reformers is shining a spotlight on education in America, I'm as disturbed by what they're saying as I am by how they're saying it.
The problem that now confronts the public health structures of New York City and State is that both have not paid for their major community AIDS preve...
Diane Sawyer of ABC World News Tonight recently returned to her hometown of Louisville, Kentucky to see how it has been faring during the economic dow...
In New York City, you can just lose 40,000 jobs for poor kids and no reporter will notice. In the Bronx, you can defund orphans trying to work for a few weeks and no one will notice.
The following letter was issued from the Kingsbridge Armory Task Force to the public on October 14, 2010. More information can be found here. To Whom...
In case there is any superhero confusion, I just want to make clear that in education, Superman is not the charter school. Superman is the great teacher, wherever he or she may teach.
In part, the events in the Bronx are a symptom of this trickle-down fear. It remains to be seen if this ugly virus spreads further or, perhaps, is instead serving to immunize the host.
Bronx Prep's first-ever Speech Boot Camp marked the initial step in a shift toward a model of student leadership that is transforming my ideas about who owns -- and should own --education.
"The biggest thing about cooking is the story about it," says Amuse * Bouche blogger Bradley O'Bryan Hawks. "The story always makes the food taste better."
