Top-20 List of Films for 2018 - Entrepreneur Generations

It's the day of the Oscars, my deadline for my year-end list. Here were my favorites of 2018!  1- Blackkklansman: my most emotional exp...

Day 1 of #NCTE18: Seeing Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie speak - Entrepreneur Generations

Day 1 of NCTE: I arrived in Houston today in the early afternoon, escaping the freezing rain (and weather drama) in Baltimore.  This is m...

Purple Hibiscus and the Troubling Father Amadi - Entrepreneur Generations

The first time I read Purple Hibiscus, I was bored. I blame this on the fact that I didn't actually read it; I listened to it on Audibl...

When a Handful of Members Deny the Rest of Their Teacher Union the Right to Expanded Accessible Voting - Entrepreneur Generations

I just walked out of one of the more bizarre and disappointing events I've attended recently: the Baltimore Teachers Union general membe...

No Heat in Classrooms: Look Beyond the Tragic Photos and Cast Blame on the State, the City, and the Kirwan Commission - Entrepreneur Generations

Baltimore City Public Schools are in the national news right now , due to frigid classrooms throughout the system. Photographs all over soci...

JD Merrill for State Senate: I've known JD for over 10 years, as a student and later as a colleague and advocate, and he's one of the most remarkable young leaders I've ever encountered - Entrepreneur Generations

I have known J.D. Merrill for over 10 years, first as a student-athlete on the City College baseball team and a very active student leader,...

My Favorite Podcasts of 2017 - Entrepreneur Generations

I love the New Years and its fresh starts, rejuvenation and reflection -- so much so that, as I age, it might be considered my favorite holi...

Book Review: Dear Martin by Nic Stone - Entrepreneur Generations

Nic Stone's Dear Martin kept coming up on my Amazon recommendations list, but it was Lemony Snicket's recommendation in this articl...

Book Review: Little Fires Everywhere by Celeste Ng - Race, Privilege, and Secrets in Shaker Heighs, Ohio - Entrepreneur Generations

Similar to Celeste Ng's magnificent  Everything I Never Told You , one of my favorite novels ever, her second novel,  Little Fires Every...

Book Review: The Fact of a Body: A Murder and a Memoir by Alexandria Marzano-Lesnevich - Entrepreneur Generations

The most unusual read -- which was a listen, on Audible -- I had this summer was this one, a blending of true crime and memoir which was unl...

Book Review: Salvage the Bones by Jesmyn Ward - Entrepreneur Generations

This summer, I happened to catch an article that Stanford University was requiring incoming students to read three books this summer: Yaa G...

Book Review: The Hate U Give by Angie Thomas - Entrepreneur Generations

With The Hate U Give , Angie Thomas has pulled off a novel to fit our "now" better than any other I have read. Our narrator, Starr...

Book Review: If Beale Street Could Talk by James Baldwin - Entrepreneur Generations

It's not secret that James Baldwin is my favorite writer, from his non-fiction which has changed my life to his captivating fiction like...