Category: Education
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Children Learning About Occupy Wall Street & Columbus Day
I saw a Facebook posting “New York Children To Occupy Wall Street on 10/10/11 at noon at Liberty Plaza. Get your schools to endorse this event and invite all the students to come. Let the world see how much the children want their world changed.”
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Kobie Brown “From Fatherless To Fatherhood” (2012 Film)
I along with millions of Americans have grown up “Fatherless”. And today 40% of American children live in a fatherless home raised by single mothers, aunts, grandmothers and other female caregivers. Kobie Brown’s 2012 film From Fatherless To Fatherhood explores the causes, effects and possible solutions to turning the corner on father absence. We met at […]
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My Small Story Mix II
14 NYC stories in 14 minutes. A thread of conversations beginning with a new New Yorker who is proof that people move to NYC from all over the world; a man roller skating w the bottom of a mannequin on his head in soho; Freedom Bradley Dir-City Parks Foundations on what else “NYC Parks”; Founder […]
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Culture Critic Amy Linden on 28 yrs in Fort Greene, Rafael Saadiq & Obama
“Bitchin about what Brooklyn is now is like bitchin about what Hip-Hop use to be like..aint gonna happen..Paid In Full is not coming back out again.” Amy moved to Fort Greene 28 years ago from the Lower Eastside. We have been friends since the 90’s when I lived in Fort Greene & Clinton Hill. After […]
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John Perry’s Hunger Strike (Day 4)
Manhattan artist, John Perry, is on day 4 of his hunger strike @ Kenmare Sq (Lafayette/Spring St) protesting Tad Friend’s New Yorker’s article from last summer. A piece Perry says killed his reputation, hurt his art career and left him without a steady teaching job. The article, “Sleeping with Weapons,” portrays Perry as a violent […]
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Harlem Teens Anti-Violence Protest April 15th @ 129th & Lenox (II)
(Part II) In Harlem last Friday, teens representing high Schools across Harlem came to speak, rap and lay down on the street for 5 minutes; thus, putting themselves in the place of someone who has been shot. Here is an additional edit of the teen’s speeches, rap and words from Iesha on “why we are […]
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Tunisian Poet Samia Ouederni @ Nuyorican Poets Cafe
After sharing a poem on Facebook in response to the revolution that was happening in her home of Tunisia, Samia was asked to read for Miguel Algarin, the Founder of the Nuyorican Poets Cafe. Samia is the 1st Tunisian poet to be published in English; and, read at the Nuyorican, one of the most important […]
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Harlem Renaissance High School w Street Corner Resources (WBLS.Com)
The Kid’s are alright! I shadowed Iesha of Street Corner Resources at Harlem Renaissance High School for their 1st annual Video Expo. The students created videos to enhance their college applications and presented their work to family, friends and colleges. The classrooms became exhibition spaces. Meet 4 students and the Principal that empowers them. Harlem Renaissance […]
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Dinosaur Hill: Building Blocks, TuTus, Puzzles, Rubber Duckys, Trucks & Staten Island Ferry
Gift ideas for infants to young children. A visual walk through the East Village store Dinosaur Hill with owner Pamela Pier. Items that are highlighted include: Building Blocks, Umbrellas, Tutus, Reading games, Make-A-Plate, Tub Toys, Trucks & The Staten Island Ferry.
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A Claire Mike: Singer/Model on Volunteering, Art & Bedford Stuyvesant Restoration Corporation
NEW: She is a singer/songwriter that has worked with John Legend, Luther Vandross, Mos Def, Sly & Robbie, Talib kwali, Dead Prez, Carly Simon & Good Charlotte. However, I focused on the Volunteering she is doing at Bed-Stuy Restoration Corporation’s Center for Arts & Culture. I filmed her at the Eyewitness: Beautiful Black Brooklyn 1960’s-1980 exhibition. She shared her story, sang and I interviewed 1 of the photographers featured Randolph “Randy” Waterman.
MY SMALL STORY: Over 300 Filmed New York Stories 