Not many people know that Fitzgerald wrote a section for The Great Gatsby in which his characters decide, one hot summer afternoon, to go and watch a ballgame.
The children who live here are precious children and their lives are glowing with the potential of who they are and who they can become. But this will not be possible unless we stop isolating entire communities and join together to take action.
For so many of our families and our children, the challenges of living in this wonderful city are not subway delays or long lines at Starbucks, but putting food on the table.
Over sixty years ago right fielder Bobby Thompson crossed home plate and a thousand kids danced with dreams filling their heads that someday they too would swat the high fastball at the Polo Grounds.
Arianna made the second stop on her crowdsourced book tour last night at the non-profit literacy center The Harlem LitWorld Girls Club, where she talk...
Thomson's heroics may have depended on the absence of injured catcher Roy Campanella from the Dodger lineup.
