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Harlem youth learn life lessons through summer internships

August 18, 2011

Last week several elected officials, including Manhattan District Attorney Cyrus R. Vance Jr., City Council Speaker Christine M. Quinn and Council Members Robert Jackson and Inez Dickens, announced a new pilot program to give summer internships to yo…

District attorney Vance, speaker Quinn, council member Dickens and Jackson, and Brotherhood/Sister Sol

August 10, 2011

Pilot Program Exposes Students to Educational and Workforce Possibilities, and Cultural Experiences.

Engaging Young Adults About Their Future

May 12, 2011

BHSS Executive Director & Co Founder Khary Lazarre-White discusses engaging young adults about their future on Fox News.

BHSS Associate Director on NY1

March 22, 2011

Ana Oliveira, the President and CEO of the Women's Foundation and Cidra Sebastien, Associate Director of The Brotherhood/Sister Sol, voice their concerns about the governor's budget.

nv (New Vision In Business): It Takes a Village

December 1, 2010

nv profiles The Brotherhood/Sister Sol’s programs, which have helped hundreds of youth in New York City.

Amsterdam News

October 1, 2010

Khary Lazarre-White provides a shining example of what a community nonprofit youth organization can become. Celebrating its 15th year, BHSS currently serves as a beacon for youth in Harlem ranging in ages from 6 to 22.

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The Brotherhood/Sister Sol has achieved a wide array of media attention for its work.

On television we have been featured on The Oprah Winfrey Show and received Oprah's Angel Network's Use Your Life Award; we have also been featured on the Tavis Smiley Show on PBS as well as on Good Day America, Good Day New York, ABC, BET, FOX and as New York One's New Yorkers of the Week.

We have been covered in many publications, including The New York Times, The Amsterdam News, Essence Magazine, The Daily News, The New York Post, The Chronicle for Higher Education, Canada's Herizon's Magazine, Uptown Magazine, Ebony Magazine, and Emerge Magazine.

The Brotherhood/Sister Sol has also appeared on over 50 radio shows throughout New York City and the nation.

We can’t lose one child, not one. And looking at the success of what you’ve done with this organization is amazing. I thank The Brotherhood/Sister Sol for having commitments to both the hood and the soul.

Professor Charles Ogletree, Harvard Law School

I am profoundly humbled by the vision and the courage and determination of The Brotherhood/Sister Sol. For 16 years, they have kept the focus where it belongs: on the precious and priceless young people.

Dr. Cornel West, Princeton University