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Food education organizations ramp up efforts to feed NYC students, even while facing their own hardships
With school cafeterias closed, New York City has opened 400 campuses serving about 250,000 grab-and-go meals a day to students or any other residents who need food. Read Article Here.
How One Social-Justice Organization Diversified Its Revenue
NEW YORK — As he leads a visitor on a tour of the busy Harlem intersection where the organization he co-founded has made a home for the past 25 years, Khary Lazarre-White explains with pride how Brotherhood/Sister Sol transformed a cluster of mostly vacant and rundown...
Community at Center of New Brotherhood/Sister Sol’s Harlem Headquarters
NEW YORK - Brotherhood/Sister Sol has been helping young people reach their potential for 25 years. But it’s about to take a big step into the future. Co-Founders Khary Lazarre-White and Jason Warwin are in the process of transforming the organization’s Harlem...
The help NYC children deserve: The public schools are starved for guidance counselors and social workers
At just 17 years old, I can’t count the number of times my friends and I have had no choice but to be one another’s support system through personal battles with our mental health. New York City’s public schools are to blame. I attend a high school with more than 400...
The House That Cidra Sebastien Helped Build
In the 18 years that Cidra Sebastien spent at Harlem’s Brotherhood/ Sister Sol, she raised children, encouraged their hopes and dreams, then sent them off to college with the kind of goals and aspirations they found hard to imagine from the constraints of their...
Brown Alumni Monthly – Changemakers The Brotherhood/Sister Sol hits 25
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...
Apology not accepted: Bloomberg’s regret over stop and frisk does not impress its victims
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...
Khary Lazarre-White appeared on CBS News to discuss Michael Bloomberg’s recent apology
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% of those...
Hailing Hartman
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 Here.
Johnny Hartman Plaza Opening featured on Fox 5 NY
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 here.
Johnny Hartman Plaza Opening featured on NY 1
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 here.
New Plaza Brings Activity Space, Safety Improvements To Harlem
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...
