Ready, get set, GO!

January 8, 2012 | Posted by SAH

Buried under my chocolate duvet, I peek my head and hands out just enough for the light of my laptop to guide this entry. So here we are. Just you and me.

Oh, before I forget..Happy New Year!!

Hydeia Broadbent: Young, Black and Fearless

September 7, 2011 | Posted by SAH

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Her words dance resiliently as she speaks of living a life full of magnetizing courage. She’s walked many a red carpet, sat with the most famous, been featured in everything from Essence to the NY Times, and even appeared on Oprah. Make no mistake though, this 27-year-old trailblazer is no movie star; Hydeia Broadbent is a walking testament that life is a gift to be owned.

At 6-years old, when many little girls were playing with their dolls, Hydeia was center stage educating the world on HIV/AIDS. Abandoned at birth, Patricia and Loren Broadbent took Hydeia in as a foster child and later adopted her. Hydeia was sick as a child, but her parents thought her symptoms were the result of being born to a drug-addicted mother. It wasn’t until she was three years old that they learned Hydeia contracted HIV at birth from her mother who was an intravenous drug-user.

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What’s The Word on the Street About Bed-Stuy, And Who Wants to Know?

January 8, 2012 | Posted by SAH

Hundreds of miles away, tucked in a café in Bordeaux, France, a woman told a waiter she was visiting from Bedford-Stuyvesant. His eyes widened in surprise, as he said, “Yes, I’ve heard of it – my former guitarist just moved there!”

She then began sharing her tale about her new life in the Stuy.

Are Housing Scams Aiding Class Gentrification?

September 7, 2011 | Posted by SAH

The sounds of honking horns and supportive chants that brought the small gray house at 320 Tompkins Avenue to life have ended.

Today, it sits enveloped by a deafening silence.

In a spirited display of community solidarity, residents, local politicians and housing advocates gathered to thwart the scheduled eviction of 82-year-old Mary Ward, who was a victim of a predatory lending scam.

Real estate speculators target people of color, the poor and the elderly, which makes Ward and neighborhoods like Bed-Stuy ripe for fraudulent lenders and other scam artists.

A Gentrified Mind? Ask the Nomad Junkie

September 7, 2011 | Posted by SAH

A Punk Rock band was an amped backdrop to a riveting poetic monologue that ripped into the air and put gentrification in a 50-minute choke-hold.

Gentrified Minds (the NY Horror, Volume 2) is a protest play by Dennis Leroy Kangalee. Kangalee performed as “The Nomad Junkie,” to the enthralling live beats from The Children of Warhol.

In his ode to New York City and its five boroughs, Kangalee showcased his contempt for the rise of hipsters, real estate development, displacement and corporate culture. He mourns the loss of authentic urban culture and local character– what he calls community.

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