Samuel J. Tilden High School, one of the last schools in Brooklyn to offer bilingual instruction in Haitian Creole and English, will close its doors this summer despite more than three years of struggle by a coalition of community advocates against the city’s Department of Education. read more »

Students scored a major victory June 18 when state lawmakers agreed to continue funding free and reduced-fare MetroCards. read more »

Marisol Ramos is tired of her friends and family living in fear of deportation. The 25-year-old South Bronx native is walking 250 miles to lobby for a moratorium on deportations of undocumented families as well as the passage of the Development, Relief and Education for Alien Minors (DREAM) Act. read more »

On March 26, New York State Supreme Court Judge Joan B. Lobis reversed a controversial decision to shut down 19 New York City public schools. The ruling, in response to a lawsuit jointly filed by the United Federation of Teachers and the NAACP, came two months to the day after Mayor Michael Bloomberg’s handpicked schoolboard approved the closures. read more »

Daniella Hidalgo will begin a walk from New York City to Washington, D.C., starting April 10 to bring attention to the challenges facing undocumented youth and their families. read more »

Worried about Haitian young adults slipping through the cracks in New York City, Brooklyn community activist Darnell Benoit co-founded Flanbwayan, The Haitian Literacy Project, in 2005. read more »

Reverend Doctor Philius Nicolas has led the Evangelical Crusade of Fishers of Men since its founding in 1973 in East Flatbush, Brooklyn. read more »

Despite suffering a fractured vertebrae and a chest contusion, Leigh Carter feels lucky. “I always imagined an earthquake would start as a tremor,” she says of the magnitude 7.0 earthquake that ravaged Haiti Jan. 12. But “we were at 7.0 very suddenly, being thrown violently around the office with everything moving, falling and crashing around us.” read more »

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