Losing weight is the key to stopping diabetes before it starts! Project HEED—Help Educate to Eliminate Diabetes is a free eight-session workshop offered in English and Spanish that showed impressive results when it was introduced last year to overweight East Harlem residents with pre-diabetes. Participants learned simple ways to eat healthier with the foods of their culture, be more active, and read labels on food and drinks. After one year, participants in the Project HEED workshop lost an aver… Continue

Dear Neighbor:

Unfortunately, I write you with extremely upsetting news regarding a member of the East Harlem Tutorial Program family.

5pm Saturday evening, former EHTP student and current staff Glenn Wright was stabbed twice in the neck while washing his grandmother’s windows on the Lower East Side, in what appears to have been a tragic case of mistaken identity. With his family, friends, and many of us from EHTP by his side, he passed away yesterday afternoon.

A suspect has been apprehended… Continue

US-PuertoRicans.org is a multimedia community dedicated to the Puerto Rican Diaspora - a place for discussion and learning, for stimulating imagination, and promoting solidarity. Today more Boricuas live in the United States than in Puerto Rico. For most of the 20th century, US Puerto Ricans were concentrated in the Northeast and Midwest but today live across the country. Changes in the Diaspora signal an opportune moment to… Continue

If you are an artist and have work or would like to create work that speaks out against police brutality, October 22 Coalition-New York has a number of propositions for you. The October 22 Coalition to Stop Police Brutality, Re… Continue