Biafra: Nigeria Has Failed To Learn From Past Mistakes
(Dad and I during my first holy communion in Kano) I was probably eight the first time I heard about Biafra. It was from an Igbo...
Meet the 18-Year-Old New Yorker Who Wants to be the FDNY'S First Female Muslim Firefighter
(Ahlam Ahmed) Ahlam Ahmed is determined to become a New York City firefighter. The petite eighteen-year-old of Yemeni descent stands five...
New York's Bravest is Trans FDNY Firefighter Brooke Guinan
"The world doesn't have language to actively allow me to identify myself." Leaning over the kitchen countertop in her two-bedroom...
Meet the Two New Yorkers Who Are Starting a Preschool for Adults
These women want to transport you back to a time of glitter and glue and everything nice. (Photo courtesy of Michelle Joni Lapidos.)...
THE NYPD WANTS YOU TO KNOW IT'S SHOOTING FEWER PEOPLE THAN YOU THINK
Last year, eyewitnesses were certain that 16-year-old Kimani Gray was unarmed when two plainclothes officers shot him seven times in East...
Does the New Crown Heights Starbucks Threaten Small Neighborhood Businesses?
(The Pulp and the Bean and its new neighbor, Starbucks) The coffee tension brewing in Crown Heights, Brooklyn, started after Starbucks...
Why Wasn't the U.S.-Africa Summit Held in Africa?
Wednesday marked the last day of U.S. efforts to strengthen ties with Africa through the first-ever U.S.-Africa summit, for which nearly...
A Tale of Two Countries: Looking Back on the Path Not Taken
Book Review | Author: Chinua Achebe | Publisher: Penguin Group (USA) |Page Number: 352 When we hear the name Chinua Achebe, we remember a...
75 Years On, Washington Heights Jewish Community Remembers Kristallnacht
Amid sounds of shattering glass and roaring fires, a confused 14-year-old Hannah Eisner struggled to read a book in her parents’...
Campaign Fights to Treat Children Committing Crimes as Children
(Raise the Age Forum at West Harlem Polo Grounds Community Center by Yuval Sheer) Hernan Carvente will never forget May 18, 2008. Under...
