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My name is Lorenzo Steele Jr., and I am a former New York City corrections officer who spent 15 years working on the infamous Rikers Island (C-74), the nation's most violent adolescent jail.

Lorenzo Steele (r) with a former inmate Anthony Simpson conducting a prison art exhibition at New Rochelle college in 2014. Photo: Lorenzo Steele Jr. My name is Lorenzo Steele Jr.

Art And Quote By Harriet Faith It's Not Who You Know And It's Not What You Know It's How You Know.... A quote from.. .yours truly. This thought came to me as I was playin' around in my sketchbook with crayons. Yes *crayola crayons.

HAVE YOU BEEN WANTING TO WORK OUT IN THE MORNING AND YOU JUST CAN'T SEEM GET OUT OF BED? DO YOU WAKE UP AND RENEGOTIATE YOUR PROMISE TO EXERCISE, TURN OVER IN BED AND SAY @#$@ IT, OR DO ONE OF THE FOLLOWING THINGS: GET UP AND GO WORKOUT PULL THE BLAN

500 Men Wayne Devenish along with student male participants By Keith L.

The Brooklyn Peace and Justice Fair, initiated by Brooklyn For Peace and organized by a broad group of Brooklyn based progressive and community organizations, will take place from 11 am to 5 pm on Saturday, June 27, at Cuyler Gore Park, located at Fu

Artwork By Harriet Faith. Quote By Albert Einstein "Creativity is intelligence having fun!" --Albert Einstein ...And this guy would know. He is a genius, you know.

Art By Harriet Faith ~ Quote From Marcel Proust This quote draws attention to the fact that we really don't - and can't - know the true essence of other people, or really, even of things.

Citizen: An American Lyric by Claudia Rankine is required reading for every white American, just as James Baldwin's The Fire Next Time was and is.

By Rebeca Ramirez, Myrtle Avenue Brooklyn Partnership Stroll by the corner of Fort Greene Park entrance at Myrtle Avenue and Washington Park to see the Heart Seat , a public seating element that made of a repurposed water tank.