On Exploring the Contemporary ChildI can barely lift my head out of the sludge. The alarm clock beside my bed reminds me that I am home again, back to reality. Ironically, as I stare at that short rectangular box on top of my vanity, I am reminded that my alarm stopped long ago. Back when […]
Reading Tolstoy for Social Justice Education Brilliant Tolstoy discusses the complex nature of “education for emancipation” in his classic novel, Anna Karenina. I refer to Levin, of course, a wealthy landowner who spends his time in the country farming, writing a book on agriculture and secretly longing for the simple and joyful life of the […]
“Curiosity as restless questioning, as movement toward the revelation of something hidden, as a question verbalized or not, as search for clarity, as a moment of attention, suggestion, and vigilance, constitutes an integral part of the phenomenon of being alive.” (Paulo Freire, 1998)After attending Harlem Stage’s Community Dialogue Series on Harlem, Cultural Capital and Naming […]
When my son turned ten, my husband and I took out an old video and transported ourselves back in time ten years. When did we grow old? I send my son to school every day. There, I know, is a bully. Also, an inexperienced teacher riddled with insecurity. I want to protect him from our […]
This art exhibit to be displayed in one of Harlem’s spectacularly renovated brownstones on historical Striver’s Row is a celebration and tribute to those coming home this season. Celebrate with Sol Artz Collective, New Heritage Theater Group, Raquel Rios and many of our friends and associates this Memorial Day weekend. Friday, Wine Reception May 23rd, […]
Sometimes in life, it’s time to come home. In this ever changing world with fast paced technology, airplanes that connect distant countries, emails that defy space and telephones that travel lightly wherever we go – it is easy to forget that there is no place like home. What does home mean to me? Home is […]
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