Mary Annaïse Heglar

Stealing the Rainbow

Mary Annaise Heglar Dec 20, 2010

For Colored Girls Directed by Tyler Perry Lionsgate, 2010 When I first heard about Tyler Perry’s plan to direct…

• Culture

‘First Line of Defense’

Mary Annaïse Heglar Aug 3, 2010

More than 100 transit workers and straphangers attended the Metropolitan Transit Authority’s public hearing at Hostos Community College in…

• New York

New Yorkers Escalate Demand for Immigration Reform

Mary Annaïse Heglar Jun 3, 2010

Wearing a clerical collar, a pressed black suit and plastic handcuffs, Bishop Orlando Findlayter climbed with purpose into the…

• New York

Experience Is The Best Teacher: Bronx School Fights to Save Building Trades Programs As DOE Pushes College Prep Over Hands-on Learning

Mary Annaïse Heglar Feb 19, 2010

Ever since he was a small child, Rubany Peña knew he wanted to be a carpenter. “I always loved…

• New York

Inside Columbus High School

Mary Annaïse Heglar Jan 29, 2010

Brittany Rosado, who attends Christopher Columbus High School in the Northeast Bronx, used to belong to a gang and…

• New York