News for Harlem and the Harlems of the World
It’s time for the second annual Harlem Earth Day initiative, presented by Harlem Park to Park (HP2P). Celebrity chefs, authors and activists will be among the headliners of the monthlong program. The initiative, sponsored by Con Edison, Land Yoga, MIST, Friends of Morningside Park and Marcus Garvey Park Alliance, is designed to celebrate Global Earth […]
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One afternoon last week, three Ernst & Young associates boarded the subway near their Times Square headquarters and rode to The Bronx to meet with a group of T-shirt designers. One associate from the global professional services firm helped a team calculate production costs, while another discussed brand identity and the third reviewed design sketches. When the
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There is still no news on the upcoming Sanitation worker exam but the city is currently offering more than a dozen other tests for civil service jobs this month. Caseworker, child protection specialist, correction officer and eligibility specialist are some of the titles open this month along with police officer, school safety agent and motor
Chinique Pressley was born and raised in the Bronx, N.Y. She attended Morris College in Sumter, South Carolina and majored in Elementary Education. She’s been teaching for over eighteen years and is still loving it. Chinique says “It’s not a job, it’s my passion and dream.” What inspired you to become a teacher? My mother
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When did you know you wanted to be a teacher? I’ve always enjoyed working with kids. I decided that I wanted to be a teacher when I was 15, when I had my first job as a camp counselor. I was a counselor for 7 years, and continued to tutor, which sealed my decision to teach.
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What kind of educational research do you conduct with the Harlem Educational Activities Fund (HEAF)? The kind of work that we do with HEAF says a lot about who they are, in that it’s the sort of thing that you only go into if you can have faith that kids will do great things if
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How long have you been teaching? I’m currently in my second year, although I began teaching last year at a charter school (International Leadership Charter High School) in Kingsbridge and left in February 2012 for a teaching position at my current school DreamYard Preparatory High School in the South Bronx. My current school is a
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Kenyetta Hopkins, 3rd Grade Teacher Where did you grow-up? Kenyetta: I was born in Inverness, Florida. I loved growing up in the south, which was very country. I enjoyed visiting my grandmother and my grandfather on all of their property in Citrus County. I grew up with 22 cousins; we would ride on the back
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Sickle cell disease is more than a diagnosis; it’s a way of life that challenges doctors, patients and their families everyday. It’s also an opportunity. Embracing the presence of sickle cell, gaining knowledge about how this blood disease operates, and taking part in recurrent conversation are the steps we can all take to empower people
Giorgio Armani once said, “I’ve always thought of the T-shirt as the Alpha and Omega of the fashion alphabet.” Harlem has become in recent years the alpha and omega of New York City and that is why Corey Wesley decided to make Harlem his home base for his residence as well as his apparel company,
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