City College of New York

This program applies public education, anti-violence slogans “Don’t shoot. I want to grow up.”, conflict mediation and community mobilization activities2. The Cure Violence program is currently active in 25 cities in the United States as well as several international cities3. In New York City, the Cure Violence program was launched in spring 2012. It was originally named "Ceasefire." This program is funded by federal, state, and local foundations and corporations. The program targets young…

The Harlem Renaissance was an explosion of African American literary, musical, and artistic culture that took place between the 1920s and mid-1930s. It was a time of intellectual and social growth for the black community. During this period, Harlem was a cultural hub attracting black artists, musicians, poets, and writers. Among those artists whose works attained recognition was Langston Hughes. His fierce ethnic pride would influence numerous foreign black writers like Jacques Roumain, Nicolás…

father moved from church to church. He attended Union College where he graduated in 1848. After graduating, he worked as a teacher and studied law and in 1854 he passed the bar exam and became a lawyer. On October 25, 1859, he married Ellen Herndon, who he had three children with, one who died at the age of three. Chester Arthur was a strong abolitionist, he wanted to see an end to slavery. He won a case where a new law was passed in New York that stated discrimination was not allowed…

For Field Work Term this year, I went to New York City to work for I’m From Driftwood, a nonprofit LGBTQ storytelling archive. Primarily, I chose this internship because of the Huffington Post articles that I would be responsible for, which I did find worthwhile. I knew ahead of time that I’m From Driftwood was a small operation: consisting of its founder and board members that would scramble to find new opportunities and contacts to use for their events. There was no office space for the…

opportunities for employment" (Whitaker). The vulnerable situation of these families during this period made them susceptible to injustices in the workforce. In Invisible Man, Ellison alludes to these economic hardships with the Narrator's experience in New York. After his arrival, the Narrator finds himself in various jobs which suppress his potential, such as a worker in a paint factory and a boiler room assistant, in an attempt to make some money. A bit later in the novel, he takes a job…

he was doing was wrong, and changing his self entirely to a new and improved person. Big events happening in a person’s life can either change them for the best or for worse. In James’s case, he experienced both. James had an outstanding relationship with Hunter. Hunter was his new stepdad that his mother Ruth had gotten married to. Hunter was a furnace fireman for New York city and he did anything and everything he could to keep his new family happy. James’s real father died before he was…

born as Miltona Mirkin Cade on March 25, 1939, in New York, New York. In the year 1972, she adopted the last name Bambara from a signature she found on a sketch pad in a trunk of her grandmother's things. Bambara grew up in Harlem, New York where she attended public schools. She also attended Queen College in New York where she received her B.A. degree in theater arts in 1959. She then got her M.A. degree in American Literature at the City College in 1965. Bambara died of cancer in Pennsylvania…

never met someone very important to her, whom she had obviously lost. While walking in a park many years before this moment, she made two decisions that would greatly affect the rest of her life: to go to a protest with her college friend Lucas or to stay in the park with her new friend Kate and the decision to pick up a phone with an area code she didn’t recognize or to talk to an army doctor named Josh who just came home from his second tour. From here, the story split off into two separate…

in college. “It takes tremendous amount of training to star on Broadway” (Oppenheim, “What It Takes to Train a Broadway Star”). This quote applies to people wanting to pursue Broadway or any other career in the musical theatre industry. A college education is a major necessity for one to be a success in this business, unless someone is naturally gifted in all three areas and ready to take on a career, which rarely happens. College emphasizes dance, music, and acting in this field. College is…

The twelve individuals selected to contribute and discuss the MTA fare hike are basic on the impact, knowledge of the situation, media influence they have among the Harlem community and City College scholars. Padmore John is the chair of Community Board 9 in Manhattan, which would be an essential person to have because of the outreach he has on the West Harlem community. Paul Jackson is the publisher of the Harlem Times newspaper. Jackson’s…