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Young Entrepreneur, 13, Wants To Remind Peers Reading Is Fun
Teen Featured In Award Winning Anti-Violence Video Is ‘Critical’ After Hit By Stray Bullet
Sean ‘Diddy’ Combs To Open Charter School In Harlem
PASSAIC, NJ — 7th Grade Middle School Chronicles: Oh Essynce, If Only You Could See the Future... is the latest book written by teen author, Essynce Moore. Released on March 16, she is already preparing for a book tour to travel to different states and re-introduce children to the fundamentals and importance of reading. Books will be signed and available for pur- chase during the tour.
Her first book, 6th Grade Middle School Chronicles, re- leased in February 2015, was Amazon’s Top International seller, and is currently being introduced to different school districts to be considered for mandatory reading. Some of New Jersey’s elementary/mid- dle schools recently purchased copies of the book for their students.
Both books, 6th Grade Mid- dle School Chronicles and 7th Grade Middle School Chroni- cles are available on Amazon at http://amzn.to/1U1bkJY.
Essynce is a young protégé and a phenomenal speaker that loves to inspire people at schools, conferences, work- shops, and more. She is ac- cepting invitations to bring
Essynce Moore with her books.
her 7th Grade Middle School Chronicles Book Tour to local children to help remind them why reading is fun and neces- sary.
Essynce is a Teenpreneur, children, tweens and teens stylist/fashion designer, ac- tress, motivational speaker, spa and boutique owner, as well as being an author. For more information about Es- synce Couture, LLC, visit her website at www.essyncecou- ture.com. Twitter: www.twit- ter.com/EssynceCouture Facebook:www.face- book.com/essyncecouture. Instagram: www.insta- gram.com/essyncecouturellc andwww.instagram.com/es- syncecouturespaandboutique.
DIDDY
HARLEM, NY -- Sean Combs is on his way to im- proving New York City’s educa- tion system, according to a press release.
The acclaimed Capital Preparatory Schools an- nounced on Monday that it has tapped the multi-hyphenated mogul to open a new charter school in Harlem this fall. For the Harlem-native, opening the Capital Preparatory Harlem Charter School is a “dream come true.”
“I want to impact the lives of young people in my commu- nity, and build future leaders. The first step is offering access to a quality education,” Combs said in a statement provided to The Huffington Post. “Every young person should have the tools they need to succeed. All our children should be able to pursue their dreams. That is something I can impact with this school.”
Joining Combs’ milestone venture will be educator and founder of Capital Preparatory Schools, Dr. Steve Perry, who will oversee the school and Orlando-based educator Danita Jones, who has been named as the school’s principal. Additional educators are ex- pected to be named prior to the school’s fall opening.
Over the course of five years Combs met with local leaders and education experts, such as Dr. Perry, to outline the school’s groundwork to enrich the lives of Harlem students.
“I’m inspired by Sean Combs’ belief that educating our young people is the key to opening up a world of opportu- nity for them,” Dr. Perry said in the release. “Sean and I have spent many long hours over the last five years talking about ed- ucation and how best to meet the needs of the young people of Harlem, and I couldn’t be more pleased to continue this journey through the opening of the school.”
The charter school is cur- rently accepting applications for students in the sixth and seventh grades and will expand a grade each year until 700 stu- dents are fully enrolled in the school through grade 12, ac- cording to a press release.
CHICAGO (Reuters) - A Chicago teenager who ap- peared in an award-winning anti-violence video was in crit- ical condition in a hospital on Sunday after he was shot in the back by a stray bullet near his home on Chicago’s West Side, police and local media said.
Zarriel Trotter, 13, who police said was shot Friday night, appears in a minute long YouTube video with sev- eral third- through seventh- grade African-American boys discussing their feelings to- ward gun violence and homi- cides.
“I don’t want to live around in my community where I got to keep on hearing and hearing people keep on getting shot, people keep on getting killed,” the seventh-grader said in the public service announcement, titled “Black is Human.”
Police said Zarriel was not the intended target of gunfire, which broke out after a fight between two groups of people turned violent.
Zarriel Trotter in in critical condition after being hit by a stray bullet.
The video, which begins with 2013 data from the Centers for Disease Control and Preven- tion, was awarded an Advo- cacy Media Award, according to the Facebook page of Bur- rell Communications, which created the video.
Zarriel had surgery on Sat- urday at Mount Sinai Hospital, the Chicago Tribune newspa- per reported. He was shot about a half-mile from both his school and his home.
Postal Worker Wants NYC Cops Disciplined For Actions
From Rags To Riches: Real Estate Mogul Lives And Teaches How To Be Successful
New Haven, CT — To those who know her, Roberta Hoskie is much more than a real estate mogul.
For Hoskie, who was born Christmas Day, the road to suc- cess wasn’t always presents and bright lights. Poverty was the norm for her growing up in New Haven. It wasn’t until she had her son, Dante Brito, that her life began to change.
“I was afraid I was going to raise a young boy that was a statistic,” said Hoskie, who then was a single mother on welfare earning $417 a month. “I didn’t want my son to end up in jail or dead.”
She was 18 when she had Dante. But at 20, Hoskie started an internship at Yale University and later took ad- vantage of a first time home buyer’s program offered by the school.
The first home she pur- chased was on Norton Street in New Haven in the 1990s which jump started her real estate in- vestment career. She pur- chased the home for $88,000, but decided to have the home appraised and learned it was worth $300,000. Hoskie wasted no time selling the house and turning a profit. After that sale, she became de- termined to continue to make smart investments and figured out ways to grow financially.
While Hoskie’s passion is buying and selling properties, she said her other calling is helping others break the poverty curse. Among other projects set for this year, Hoskie plans to develop af- fordable housing for the elderly
Roberta Hoskie, founder of Ms. Millionaire Mindset Acad- emy.
and veteran populations.
The development is esti- mated at $8.5 million and will be named Roberta Wooten after her grandmother,
Hoskie said.
This year, Hoskie has
launched Ms. Millionaire Mindset online seminars and Ms. Millionaire Mindset Acad- emy, a technology based acad- emy with the purpose of teaching real estate investing while inspiring women to take control of their lives by finding their purpose through creating multiple streams of revenue.
Hoskie believes all people are born with dreams. She said her acronym for DREAM is Di- vinely- Revealed -Event -Await- ing- Manifestation. “I decided to make this a women’s confer- ence, because when women are given live changing informa- tion, they bring it home to their husbands and children.” She is available for speaking engage- ments. For more details about her, visit www.robertahoskie.com.
U.S. Postal worker Glen Grays was arrested by NY cops after he yelled at them for their bad driving.
NEW YORK --- Postal worker Glen Grays, who is accusing New York City police officers of misconduct after a controversial arrest on St. Patrick's Day, says he does not want the officers who handled his arrest to be fired, but he does demand that they face some sort of disciplinary ac- tion for their conduct that day, CBS reports.
"I don't want them to be job- less because they might have family, kids they need to sup- port," Grays told CBS This Morning. "It's sad that I thought that when I put on a uniform that I'll be treated a little different, but it's no dif- ference. You know, I'm just another brother with a uni- form."
The controversy stems from an incident in which cellphone video captured plainclothes police officers approaching the 27-year-old in the middle of his shift. Grays said that the men almost hit him while they drove by in an unmarked po- lice car, and not realizing that they were cops, Grays did
what almost any New Yorker would have done: yelled at them.
The plainclothes officers then proceeded to hop out of the vehicle and demand Grays' identification, which he told them is in his U.S. Postal Service truck.
"My ID's right there on the side of the truck," Grays said.
"Let's go get your ID," an of- ficer said.
Grays responded by telling officers that he had his mail to deliver, and the officers re- sponded by handcuffing him. Seconds later, an officer de- manded that Grays "stop re- sisting." "I'm not resisting!" Grays can be heard respond-
ing.The 27-year-old was then led away, with his mail truck left unattended. "The only thing I think saved me is that it was on videotape," Grays told CBS.
Grays said that during the ride to the police station, he was told to "shut up a numer- ous amount of times."
Brooklyn Borough President Eric Adams agrees with Grays that the officers' actions were uncalled for.
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