August 2013

TEN REASONS YOUNG ADULTS SHOULD LOVE HEALTH CARE REFORM

By Linda Ricci & Tasha Williams While most young adults don’t know it, they are the “young invincibles” in the eyes of health insurance companies, hospital executives and the public opinion pollsters who test the attitudes of young people ages 18 – 29. According to the pollsters, these “invincibles” think they will never get sick, […]

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RIVERBANK STATE PARK: A NEIGHBORHOOD WONDERLAND

By Theresa Racine What a difference 20 years makes! Originally planned for construction in a predominately white and upper-middle class neighborhood, the North River Sewage Treatment Plant eventually found its’ home in West Harlem.  The Plant stretches eight blocks along the Hudson River from 137th street to 145th street.   In 1985, concerned over the odors

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AFRICA’S RAPID ECONOMIC GROWTH AND THE CHALLENGES THAT LIE AHEAD

An Op-Ed by Milosh Marinovich On a recent family vacation, I spent a night discussing the rapid economic growth of sub-Saharan Africa with my wife’s uncle. A lawyer by trade, my Kenyan-born uncle-in-law said he’d seen a shift in the investment landscape of not only his home country, but of Africa as a whole. In

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The Bold and Beautiful

By Shea Zephir  |  @sheazephir As the old school Hip-Hop beats of Slick Rick played on the stereo courtesy of female DJ C. Devon the intimate atmosphere bellowed young fashionistas, writers, photographers and fans of Kimberly Goldson for the private launch of her Fall/Winter 2013 collection.  Ambitious, vibrant, and back on the fore front of

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