In this issue we highlight:

PROGRAMS
• Our Sister Sol Homecoming celebration
• Our Brotherhood Day of Service in honor of Reverend Dr. Martin Luther King
• New York Knicks’ star Amar’e Stoudemire’s holiday visit to BHSS and a link to ESPN’s coverage of this

ALUMNI
• Bro/Sis alumni Frank Lopez (BA, NYU) being named a 2012 Game Changer Fellow and a leading emerging filmmaker
• Bro/SIs alumni Marsha Jean Charles (BA, Wesleyan University) telling her story, via a video, of her experience in Bro/Sis

BOARD
• An announcement and bios of the three newest members to our Board of Directors: Dr. Farah Griffin, Santiago Taveras and Reverend John Vaughn

VOICES 8
• Save the date – Thursday, May 17th

In this issue we highlight:

• Our Arts Programming – performance, media, and poetry
• Our next fundraiser – our 6th Annual Women’s Holiday Tea to be held on December 3rd
• Bro/Sis Spreading the Word – facilitating trainings on our model in Chicago and New York City; presenting and performing at a recent convening on education and identity at the Afro-Latin@ conference at The Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture and CUNY Graduate Center; as well as speaking on an upcoming panel at Riverside Church on the New York City Police Department’s practices and and their policy of “stop and frisk”
• Alumni Highlights – the story of two members who were selected after a national search for Black male teachers to be inaugural Heinz Fellows in the Pittsburgh Public School System; and the highlighting of an alumni member’s developing music career at Haverford College

In this issue, we highlight:

• Our Future Foundation exposure program, a new initiative funded by the New York City Council, with great support from the Manhattan District Attorney’s Office and from Bill Lynch and Associates. You will find links to press coverage of this program in the attached newsletter.
• Our International Study Program to Ghana with links to the commentary of our young people on this transformative month long experience. You will also find information on the screening we held of Freedom Riders, the new award winning documentary on the Civil Rights Movement. Bro/Sis is an official community partner on this film.
• A site visit we held for educational youth workers from South Africa, Ireland and from across the country, sponsored by the Atlantic Philanthropies

In this issue, we highlight:

• Our International Study Program to Ghana where fourteen of our members are spending the month of July
• Our Arts Institutes that are developing our members talents and helping them to hone their artistic voices
• Our job training program and Environmental Education effort in our community garden
• Our five-week Summer Day Camp for our 7-12 year old members
• Reports from our recent Brotherhood and Sister Sol Rites of Passage Program retreats
• Reports on our trainings of educators in New Orleans, Milwaukee and New York City
• Our upcoming fundraiser, Bro/Sis Comes to the Vineyard, to be held on August 15th

In this issue, we highlight:

Educational Achievement
• Our members and alumni graduating from college and graduate degree programs at schools such as Temple University, New York University, University of Pennsylvania, the New School, Wesleyan University, SUNY Buffalo State and Fordham University.
• Our high school seniors being accepted to schools that include St. John’s University, Pace University, Ithaca University, SUNY Buffalo State, Long Island University, Fairleigh Dickinson, SUNY Albany, Medgar Evers and the University of Bridgeport.

Spreading The Word
• Bro/Sis being visited by leading educational advocates from South Africa
• Bro/Sis being featured on Fox News (watch the five minute interview)
• Our members being invited to a White House convening on the issue of youth and community that was held in New York City
• Bro/Sis being invited to participate in the W.K. Kellogg Foundation’s national convening on systemic equity on health, housing and education.

Coverage of Voices 7
• At Voices 7 Dr. Cornel West, one of the honorees of the evening, said: “I am profoundly humbled by the vision and courage and determination of The Brotherhood/Sister Sol. For sixteen years they have kept the focus where it belongs. On the precious and priceless young people.” In our newsletter you will find a link to a photo montage of the event which also honored former NYC Mayor David N. Dinkins and Rosario Dawson and was hosted by CNN’s Soledad O’Brien.

In this issue, we highlight:

• Reality Check, our youth created media & technology initiative
• Our Environmental Program
• Our upcoming Liberating Voices/Liberating Minds (LVLM) trainings, sponsored by the Open Society Institute, and to be held in Milwaukee and Jackson, Mississippi
• A recap and slide show of our 4th annual Getting Rich By Giving Back panel
• A save the date for Voices 7, to be held Thursday, May 5th