Monthly Archives: August 2025
Schooling youth in life and the game
By Bradmond Lee-Harewood In 2005, Jamel Wright founded the Harlem Jets, hoping to create an opportunity for his son and other inner city children to grow and develop on and off the football field. “I wouldn’t have known it was 20 years if someone else hadn’t told me,” Wright said. “The work is just that […]
Food banks helping more with less
By McGlauthon Fleming IV Amid federal funding cuts to food banks, Xavier Mission in Manhattan has asked its neighbors for support while East Flatbush Village in Brooklyn has been getting less and less food from umbrella organizations like City Harvest that serve food banks throughout the region. “In particular, we get food supplied by [Campaign […]
A Mississippi ‘freedom school’ in Brooklyn
By Derrick Stilley Since the Paul Robeson Freedom School opened in 2012, more than 500 students have enrolled in its diverse programming, which includes training in the electrical trades, Black history and music. “I’m really caught up in a world where young people are telling me their dreams. I’m loving it, I’m loving it,” said […]
Reopening in ‘26, a museum of hip-hop history
By Freddrell Green As a native of the Boogie Down Bronx, Miles Marshall Lewis said he’s steeped in hip-hop music and culture. He knows how and why it was born and about its lingering impact after more than a half-century of international acclaim. “I saw hip-hop begin from outside my window,” said Lewis, an author […]
A leader, far from his past troubles
By Westley Reaves Jr. Malik McGhee started preparing last February for three days in June at a New York City networking conference for standout students from historically black colleges and universities. He hadn’t expected to be in that pool of students, handpicked by their business school deans. He’d gotten into trouble with the law while […]
Vinyl record sales keep climbing
By Matthew Adams Ask Discog’s marketing vice president why he collects vinyl records and he’ll give a fast reply: “The music … defines who it is that I am and the music that means something to me. I want to own it.” More customers buy music downloads and streaming music but the audience for vinyl […]