Author: The ReadyWriter

Writer, Published Author, CEO of ReadyWriter Production Company and YouTube podcast Radio Host.
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“There’s A Time, And A Place For Everything”

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Yet New York schools Chancellor, Cathie Black said her comment regarding school overcrowding was just a joke.

Black said: “birth control would solve the problem” and made the remark last week at a task force meeting on school overcrowding.

Upon hearing estimates that lower Manhattan would need an additional 1,000 elementary school seats by 2015, she said “birth control would really help us.”

Cathie Black is already disliked amongst some of her constituents, city activist and parents., being a former executive at Hearst Magazines and USA Today; many felt she was more than unqualified for the job as New York’s school chancellor.

Black was appointed to the position by New York Mayor Bloomberg and Bloomberg came to her defense following a Martin Luther King Jr. breakfast yesterday. He said, “she has apologized and “won’t make the same mistake again.”

Her spokeswoman Natalie Ravitz says, “she takes the problem of school overcrowding seriously and regrets her “offhanded joke” left a different impression.”

Was the School Chancellor ‘out of place with her remark?’ I’d like to hear your thoughts on the matter?

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“We Dined At The Red Rooster”

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In Harlem over the weekend.

Located on Lenox Avenue, in the heart of Harlem, this restaurant just opened on Friday, January 17th.

After months of delay, the ‘Red Rooster’ finally opened to the public this past weekend.  

The new Harlem eatery, which covers two floors of openness, includes front cafe seating (which looks like a food mart) to accommodate 24, a 20-seat bar, a 76 seat dining area, which is very trendy and very different.

I was a bit turned off by the Aunt Jemima box display along with a can of green beans and pickles used as a decorative touch, however the menu is American cuisine and comfort food.

As a meal, I had the daily market greens, the red grits and shrimp while my crony had, the seared salmon, black-eyed peas and smoked collard greens.

Now., just because black-eyed peas, collard greens and cornbread are on the menu, this restaurant is not considered soul food.

The Red Rooster is owned by Ethiopian born celebrity chef and author, Marcus Samuelson. Samuelson was a guest chef for the Obama administration’s first state dinner and he is trying to become a brand in American popular food culture and cuisine.

Marcus Samuelson, 39, is married to model Gate Haile (couple pictured below), and they just appeared in Ebony magazine’s February issue of “Celebrate Black Love”.

So move over Sylvia’s, there’s a new kid on the block!

If you’re ever in the neighborhood and want something different, check out “Red Rooster” their food flare is different and so is their style…The restaurant doesn’t serve breakfast yet but that’s coming soon!

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“He Was For Freedom, Peace And Equality”

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Today commemorates the birthday of civil rights leader, Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.

President Ronald Reagan signed the bill establishing the third Monday in January as the Martin Luther King National Holiday on Nov. 3, 1983. The first observance was Jan. 20, 1986; that year, 17 states also had official King holidays, including Illinois, which recognized King with a holiday in 1973, the first state to do so.

Today, the King holiday also is observed in more than 100 countries, according to The King Center.

In 1994, the meaning of King’s holiday shifted, as Coretta Scott King called for less of an emphasis on his life and more of a focus on his legacy. The mission was expanded to include volunteerism, interracial cooperation and youth anti-violence initiatives.

Dr. Martin Luther King’s legacy was for freedom, peace and equality. In an excerpt from his famous “I Have A Dream Speech” Dr. King said:

“Now is the time to lift our nation from the quicksand of racial injustice to the solid rock of brotherhood. Now is the time to make justice a reality for all of God’s children.”

“Let freedom ring. And when this happens, and when we allow freedom to ring—when we let it ring from every village and every hamlet, from every state and every city, we will be able to speed up that day when all of God’s children—black men and white men, Jews and Gentiles, Protestants and Catholics—will be able to join hands and sing in the words of the old Negro spiritual: “Free at last! Free at last! Thank God Almighty, we are free at last!”

What will you do today in honor of Dr. King’s memory?

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“Soup Is Good During These Cold Winter Months”

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I wasn’t always a ‘soup eater’ but recently started to indulge because this diner in my area make the best soups. I’ll only eat their “new england clam chowder” “lobster bisque” or “mushroom barley”. Vegetable soups and minestrone in my opinion, are just typical and traditional soups.

Anyway, I received the cutest little crock pot for Christmas and will maybe, maybe; attempt to make some soup over the weekend. The gift was for this intended purpose. I could throw everything in the crock pot and forget about it.

So to involve you ‘my readers’ in this venture, tell me what kind of soup you think I should make?

Please keep in mind that I’m a vegetarian so chicken noodle is out!

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“Rat Crawls Up Man’s Leg on New York Train”

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This video must have played on every news channel this morning before 6:00 Am.

A man/passenger is shown sleeping on a train when a rat crawls up this man’s leg and finds his way into the man’s face. Jeffrey Ford shot the video as he rode on the train into Brooklyn and said “This is the reason he never falls asleep on the train.”

News broadcasters were trying to determine the video’s authenticity but from listening to Jeffrey, it sounds all the way real!

The video creeps me out but enjoy watching it if you haven’t seen this already.