Intro...

From 1996 to 2003, I was a free-lance journalist and writer. My work has been published in The City Sun, New York Amsterdam News, The Final Call, The African Sun Times, The Black Collegian, The Black Star News, The Source, The Black Issues in Black Review, The Quarterly Black Review as well as The Black World Today and IMDiversity.com. I will soon post the links to some of these articles and book reviews where I could find them on the web.

I received third place honors from the New York Association for Black Journalists in the Spot/General category in 2002; attended the 2001 World Conference Against Racism in Durban, South Africa on assignment with The Black World Today and The African Sun Times; and I wrote the Commentary introducing Chapter 1, “Origins, Ancestors and Memory.” In Sacred Fire: The QBR 100 Essential Black Books.

Since 2003, I’ve been working in education in the state of Maryland. I started as a classroom teacher in the Baltimore County school system before I left to join the Baltimore City Public school system as a Data Analyst, Coordinator and then Director (interim) working in data reporting and monitoring in the Office of Special Education.

I’m a product of the New York City public school and university system graduating from Murray Bergtraum HS, Herbert Lehman College (Bachelors – Accounting) and Brooklyn College (Masters – Political Science).

I decided to start this blog because I have been away from writing for ten years now and I miss it – terribly. Once I started working in education, the demands were such that it made accepting assignments to write very difficult. I couldn’t juggle both. Although I continued recording my views on various political issues, I knew that I couldn’t do both and meet the demands that each would require. Like with all decisions, you can look forward or look back – I looked back…often. As much as I liked the work that I did as an educator, I loved my work as a writer. I want to do this blog because I have something to say and information to share. I will use the blog as a tool to highlight critical political issues of the day, particularly those affecting African Americans, bring attention to good work being written as well as promote my published work.

I will be writing about the important political, legal, social, economic and cultural issues of the day.