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Celebrating 25 Years: Virtual Voices Gala
April 8, 2021
7:00 pm EST
Virtual
Voices is our annual benefit highlighting our unique and holistic programming and elevating our youth member’s voices.
Please join us virtually as we celebrate 25 years of developing young people into critical thinkers and social change agents, and an exciting new chapter – the next 25 years.
Education, Covid, Race and America
Monday, October 26th, 2020 – 6pm
Watch on Facebook Live
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With Pedro Noguera, Dean, Rossier School of Education, University of Southern California; Ana Oliveria, President & CEO, The NY Women’s Foundation; and Bro/Sis Executive Director, Khary Lazarre-White
Bro/Sis Green Youth Market
Every Wednesday
July 8 – Nov 25, 2020 10:30am – 6:30pm
Located at West 143rd Street & Amsterdam
Let us know you’re coming by, and share with your Facebook friends here.
A Youth Vision for the Future of NYC
Wednesday, August 12, 2020
11 am EDT
Facebook Live
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Johnny Hartman Plaza Virtual Programming
Thursday, July 30, 2020
6:00 pm EDT
Facebook Live
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A virtual public programming event for the Johnny Hartman Plaza hosted by Cidra Sebastien featuring Bro/Sis alumna, Rabih Ahmed, founder of LOVE LIGHT & POETRY, a business with a mission to illuminate poetry as a modality of resistance, healing, and celebration.
Check out the live for poetry, healing, and good vibes!
America – Protests, Pandemic & An Election
Friday, June 12, 2020
4pm
https://www.facebook.com/brosis512
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With Darrick Hamilton, Executive Director of the Kirwan Institute for the Study of Race and Ethnicity, Alondra Nelson, President, Social Science Research Council; Farah Griffin, Chair, Department of African American & African Diaspora Studies, Columbia University; and Bro/Sis Executive Director, Khary Lazarre-White .
Art & Activism: A Response To What We Are Facing In America
Thursday, June 4, 2020
1:00 – 2pm
https://www.facebook.com/brosis512
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The conversation was moderated by The Root’s Editor in Chief, Danielle Belton, and featured Bro/Sis alumna, Elizabeth Acevedo, NYT bestseller, Carnegie award winner and National book award winner, and our Executive Director and Novelist, Khary Lazarre-White. Check it out!
COVID-19: What it Reveals About America
Thursday, May 28, 2020
6:00pm
www.facebook.com/Brois512
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With Khary Lazarre-White, co-Founder and Executive Director; and special guests David Remnick, Editor of The New Yorker; and Farah Griffin, Chair, Department of African American & African Diaspora Studies, Columbia University.
Johnny Hartman Plaza Virtual Programming
Wednesday, May 27, 2020
6:30pm
Instagram Live
Our next virtual public programming event for the Johnny Hartman Plaza will feature Yoga on Wednesday, May 27 at 6:30 pm EST via Instagram. Move and Groove Yoga is a Harlem-based wellness initiative that seeks to build community through events focusing on music, movement and mindfulness practices. Join our host @cidramaria for a Yoga session and conversation with Courtney Liddell. Yoga props not required – just clear some space and be ready to move and groove!
Johnny Hartman Plaza Virtual Programming
Wednesday, May 20th, 2020
6:30pm
Instagram Live
Even though social distancing has delayed The Brotherhood/Sister Sol’s plan to bring arts and cultural programming to The Johnny Hartman Plaza, a public plaza that we manage in partnership with the DOT, we’ve planned a series of virtual events for May and June to be aired live on Instagram and then shared here and via our other social media platforms.
Justice in Action: Educational Inequity
Thursday, May 14, 2020
2pm
Virtual Discussion
On Thursday, May 14th at 2 pm, The Brotherhood/Sister Sol’s Executive Director, Khary Lazarre-White, was featured in an important virtual conversation with Marlene Meyerson JCC Manhattan’s Social Justice Activist in Residence Ruth Messinger and NYC Council Member Brad Lander to discuss how remote learning and the realities of learning and living during a pandemic has made more evident the inequities of our education system; along with Jose Luis Vilson, a full-time math teacher in Inwood/Washington Heights
Covid-19: The Intersection of Race, Art, Social Justice, and Medicine
Wednesday, May 13, 2020
3pm
News One’s Facebook Live
On Wednesday, May 13th, at 3pm, The Brotherhood/Sister Sol partnered with NewsOne for a special online event featuring Bro/Sis’ two Artists in Residence, celebrated influential contemporary American artist Carrie Mae Weems and legendary choreographer Bill T. Jones; along with Dr. Aletha Maybank, Chief Health Equity Officer of the American Medical Association, and our Executive Director, Khary Lazarre-White. Jamilah Lemieux, journalist and award winning writer, moderated the discussion.
Celebrating 25 Years: Voices
Ziegfeld Ballroom (141 West 54th Street)
The Brotherhood/Sister Sol has made the difficult decision to cancel our Voices 25th Anniversary Gala, but we look forward to a return to Voices in spring 2021. Stay connected with us for updates by subscribing to our email list.
Voices is our signature annual celebration of our youth and our life changing programming. Voices provides a platform for our members to share their personal journeys, often through spoken word performances.
Bro Sis Torchbearer Training
August 6, 2018 – August 9, 2018
9:30am – 5:00pm
Broadway Housing Communities, Rio Gallery and Rooftop Space
Developed over the course of 20 years, The Brotherhood/Sister Sol Rites of Passage Program is recognized nationally and internationally as one of the leading models of holistic youth development.
Voices 13
May 11, 2017
6:30pm
Gotham Hall (1356 Broadway at 36th Street)
Honorees
Carrie Mae Weems
Jeffrey Wright

Annual Events
Voices Annual Gala
Our signature annual benefit highlighting our youth and life changing programming.
Annual Planting Weeks
Our annual Planting Weeks take place from April 29th to May 9th.