Myisha Cherry

This week I talked with someone in whom I used to be involved with. I say that to paint a picture of the full degree to which this person knows me, and therefore seek to show a small picture of the perspective in which our conversation was engaged. We all paint a picture of who [...]

So me and my bud Zmoney (I reintroduced yall to her earlier this week) decided to take a late night Bike ride through Brooklyn last night. (I got stopped by the police for riding on the street while heading to her house but that’s another story.) It was still 80 degrees at midnight, so we [...]

So I’m sitting here proctoring a 2 hour final exam for my students and it has me thinking many things. Well for the last 14 weeks, we (my students and I) have been together, learning and exploring intellectually together. Hopefully they have grown as critical thinkers, students, persons. But it also reminds me of how [...]

I will never ever look at a pack of Crayola the same again!!! Oh my, the tools and objects we can use to create art is endless people. I give it up to Seattle Based artist, Diem Chau, for this. Check out more of her work here and her blog over here.

So this is my bud above, Zakia. She is important for two reasons: 1) She made me dance for the first time in years 2) She made me change picture poses for the first time in years That’s whats friends are for… Oh and she’s also a community organizer and an awesome writer who just [...]

So last night, a group of our creative writing students and teachers went over to St. Marks church sponsored by the Poetry Project to hear Poet, Activist, Playwright, and founder of the Black Arts Movement, Amiri Baraka Read. (Thanks John for the idea!) Baraka was inspiring, hardcore, and hilarious… as usual. At first we headed [...]

So I was riding my bike last weekend and got the urgent taste for some fries. So I pedaled my way to McDonald’s. (Don’t judge me, I cook fresh food however I will forever love McDonald’s fries. I despise Burger King’s!!). It was the Jazziest fast food restaurant I had every been to. There were [...]

This interview of Will and Jada Smith’s family is simply inspiring. Watch how they talk about their marriage, their purpose, their family business plan, raising children and the wisdom they share along. This gives me hope for another side of marriage that I unfortunately, have never seen growing up, but is excited to explore in [...]

So I was strolling off of Fulton Street this weekend and bumped into a new mural, a “In memory mural” if you will. My neighborhood of Bedstuy has several. I don’t know if that means that we are constantly dieing at higher rates than others  or if it just shows that we as a culture [...]

I will not say I hate Mondays. What I hate is my rest, my me time, and  the act of experiencing life outside of the routine and the must doos, coming to an end whose start was just too short in the first place. I need an extra dose of “happy” on Monday mornings. Thank [...]

So over in China at FoxConn, employees are literally killing themselves and here in America so many of us think about it between 9-5 because our work places just suck. But in Silicon Valley I believe that Google has to be the best place to work. (For some innovative ideas about the workplace please click [...]

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I am an educator, professor, teacher (whatever one you feel comfortable with calling me). My pedagogy is always in constant revision because the challenge for me constantly is to make education meaningful and relevant in the lives of my students. I partner in educating them (I do not do it alone, they participate along with [...]

“My identity is very clear to me now. I am a black woman. I’m free. I no longer have to be a ‘credit.’ I don’t have to be a symbol to anybody; I don’t have to be a first to anybody. I don’t have to be an imitation of a white woman that Hollywood sort [...]

This is the best thing since slice bread…. your red velvet cake. And the amazing thing is, this is all you sale. People stand in line in Ft. Greene, Brooklyn to get your only thing on the menu. Way to hook us, way to show us that diversity means nothing if you have one great [...]

So if you haven’t been under a rock you know about the recent immigration law passed in Arizona, giving the police permission to ask anyone for their “papers”. Although it seems as if “protection” is the purpose, many believe this will only lead to racial profiling and harassment and believes that it is just a [...]

Last Friday began the introduction to 80 degree weather and what better thing to do than to have lunch dates and NYC street walking exercises. We started out on 14th, headed to Leo kesting Gallery, and ended up on High Line Park. Below are some pictures.