Childhood Memories and the Games Girls Play
Last weekend I read this article in the NYT about how Double Dutch is now a varsity sport at high schools across NYC. I got misty eyed. I LOVE Double Dutch. I haven’t played in years but I remember fondly…
When the problem is in your backyard: NYC and Nonprofit Work
The kind of New York that people usually talk about is a New York that I am very unfamiliar with. I grew up in Marcy projects in Bed Stuy Brooklyn with my grandmother and mother as the oldest out of…
Just How Radical Are We?
I recently came across this great piece by Rosetta Thurman in which she compares the willingness to make mistakes among Baby Boomers and Generation Y. One line in particular stood out to me: “Young people are afraid to risk failure…
Missing the Point about Youth
A while ago “Men United for a Better Philadelphia” had a talk that featured Bill Cosby. Nothing said was earth shattering—in fact the talk itself was rather boring. I left a little frustrated not because of the usual “all talk…
Dating While Young and Black
The biggest problem for me when dating is that people (men and women) seem to associate material success with emotional needs. Far too often men wonder what they can “give me” since it is apparent that as an upwardly mobile…
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