Former Immigrant Helps Hometown with Libraries
A former immigrant in New York, Ángelo Cabrera is calling on Mexicans in the U.S. to help him in a project to foster readership among students back home, Diario de México reports.
A former immigrant in New York, Ángelo Cabrera is calling on Mexicans in the U.S. to help him in a project to foster readership among students back home, Diario de México reports.
Teachers say that the city is turning away some adult students with low literacy levels, Chalkbeat reports.
The McKinley Park branch of the Brooklyn Public Library in caters to a heavily Chinese immigrant population. But, as Brooklyn Bureau reports, years of funding cuts have hindered a library that has the particular task of serving immigrant patrons.
“I’m inextricably linked with the Giuliani administration,” said Republican candidate for mayor Joe Lhota. The businessman claimed the legacy of the last two mayors while carefully outlining “stylistic” differences.
The Rebel Díaz Arts Collective plans to open the Richie Pérez Radical Library next winter, where people can learn about hip-hop culture, reports El Diario-La Prensa. The group wants to promote reading and collective learning among young people.
The federally-backed library subsidy program E-Rate has committed $1.4 million to ultra-Orthodox religious institutions in Brooklyn that don’t actually qualify as libraries, The Jewish Daily Forward reports.
Fear of another devastating hurricane has lead the Queens Library to alter the design of a yet-to-be-built branch near the East River waterfront in Hunter’s Point, The Queens Courier reported.
MTV Base MEETS, an interview show that runs on African MTV networks, seeks young Africans living in NYC; an ethnic newspaper editor argues against handing out newspapers for free; the library system tackles unemployment; and some more coverage of the Ippies awards.
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