Bro/Sis alumnus & staff member Nicholas Peart pictured above on the front page of the New York Daily News on Sunday, November 24, has been a leading voice in the organizing effort to ensure fair policing. In this article, Nicholas speaks about former NYC Mayor...
On November 18th, 2019 Executive Director & Co-Founder Khary Lazarre-White appeared on CBS News to discuss Michael Bloomberg’s recent apology for his stop and frisk policy – one that resulted in over 10 million stops during his 12 years as mayor – 87%...
Renowned jazz singer Johnny Hartman, who had a lengthy recording career as a solo artist and also worked with John Coltrane and Dizzy Gillespie, has a new public space in Hamilton Heights that bears his name. Read article from Manhattan Times News...
The Brotherhood/Sister Sol (Bro/Sis) & New York City Department of Transportation’s plaza launch in Hamilton Heights on August 14, 2019, was featured on Fox 5 NY. Watch Fox 5 NY video...
The Brotherhood/Sister Sol (Bro/Sis) & New York City Department of Transportation’s plaza launch in Hamilton Heights on August 14, 2019, was featured on NY 1. Watch NY 1 video...
HARLEM, NY — A small stretch of road in West Harlem has been transformed into a public space where community members can gather for events, buy fresh produce or just find a place to sit and relax in the shade on a hot day. Elected officials and community advocates...
BEFORE THEY ARE hip-hop performers, educators, and poets, the Peace Poets are a family. “It’s been a development of a brotherhood,” Frank Antonio López (aka Frankie 4) says of the group’s formation. López and Abraham Velazquez Jr. (aka A-B-E) met when they were 3...
Launched by childhood friends Khary Lazarre-White ’95 and Jason Warwin ’95 the year they graduated, Harlem’s The Brotherhood/Sister Sol takes its cue from the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee. The organization provides 12,000 meals a year, after-school...
Silvia Canales, our College & Career Coordinator, recently participated in the Ethics in Education Network’s Ethical Schools Podcast, where she talked about the work Bro/Sis does to support young women and young men as they think about college and their...
New York city officials marked a move away from zero-tolerance school discipline policies on Thursday when it was announced that the city and the New York City Police Department had agreed to curb the presence and role of police officers in schools. For...
Bro/Sis co-founder and Associate Executive Director Jason Warwin was recently featured on the Ethics in Education Network’s Ethical Schools Podcast, where he talked about his work with Bro/Sis board member Jon Moscow. The Ethics in Education Network envisions...
By Dr. Marsha Jean-Charles, Lead Organizer of The Brotherhood/Sister Sol & Cidra M. Sebastien, Associate Executive Director of The Brotherhood/Sister Sol At New York’s P.S. 397 in the late 1990s, a deified security guard––bold, Black, and woman––made sure...
Launched by childhood friends Khary Lazarre-White ’95 and Jason Warwin ’95 the year they graduated, Harlem’s The Brotherhood/Sister Sol takes its cue from the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee. The organization provides 12,000 meals a year, after-school...
Harlem-based youth organization Brotherhood/Sister Sol (Bro/Sis) recently hosted its 15th annual VOICES benefit gala. This year’s event was held at the Ziegfeld Ballroom in Midtown where ABC News correspondent Deborah Roberts hosted. This year’s honorees were...
Attorney Debo Adegbile attributes his success as an anti-discrimination lawyer and a commissioner on the United States Civil Rights Commission to those who fought for civil rights before him, such as late Supreme Court Justice Thurgood Marshall. Read article from The...
Harlem-based nonprofit and youth development organization Brotherhood/Sister Sol honors choreographer Bill T. Jones Black Girls Rock founder Beverly Bond and civil rights litigator Debo Adegbile at the organization’s upcoming 15th annual VOICES benefit on May 21....
Khary Lazarre-White, author, activist and attorney, is the executive director and cofounder of The Brotherhood/Sister Sol (Bro/Sis), a nationally renowned, Harlem-based youth services organization. His first novel, “Passage,” is the story of Warrior, a...
Spring Awakening and Fela! Tony Award winner Bill T. Jones is honored by the Harlem-based Brotherhood/Sister Sol (Bro/Sis) during its 15th annual Voices Gala on May 21 at the Ziegfeld Ballroom. Read article from Playbill...
