Mary Rice-Boothe's Blog – July 2011 Archive (4)

When the novelist Ralph Ellison reached Harlem on July 5, 1936, he stayed at the Black artist-haven YMCA on 135th Street. The next day in the lobby he would meet Langston Hughes. Months later Hughes would introduce Ellison to Richard Wright. Although Ellison wrote… Continue

School is still in session for GED students and I've been busy supporting instructors.



On Monday I was walking from the train to a GED site in the Bronx. I ran into a former student standing in front of an apartment building. She told me she passed the last regents exam that was alluding her and was headed to college in…

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Looking out of the $2 van taking us through the streets of Cayman Islands, I see a group of school girls playing soccer. There are about eight girls in red plaid dresses with white socks and black shoes kicking the ball to each other. The dirt and grass stains seem to deflect off their clothes in the hot sun. It is the final days of the school year.



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In the past month I've visited Cayman Islands and Mexico. I spent my time reading extensively about Haiti.



I'm not… Continue

This inscription is part of statue in Heroes' Square in Georgetown,… Continue